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brought water into Caesarea Maritima. Access to water from within a city’s
fortifications was important in times of siege, and in some places, such as
Hazor and Megiddo, this involved the hewing of tunnels through solid rock
to gain access to a spring. A remarkable example is ‘Hezekieh’s Tunnel’ in
Jerusalem (see ‘Jerusalem in the 1st Millennium bce’).
But the function of a building may not always be certain, as witnessed by
the debate which continues to surround the identification of certain structures at Megiddo, originally suggested to be Solomon’s Stables. (See on
‘Megiddo’.)
Archaeology has also revealed numerous smaller artefacts which help to
build up a picture of the way of life of the people. These include pottery vessels of various shapes, sizes, and quality and, as already noted, these may be
of considerable importance for dating purposes. Among other types of find
are tools and weapons, jewellery, ornaments, statuettes, and coins.
Tombs and burial practices
Archaeology has revealed a great variety of types of burial, from simple
interments or cave burials to elaborate tombs, with evidence from right
across the historical and indeed prehistorical spectrum. The presence of various objects placed alongside the bodies suggests a belief in the necessity of
making some sort of provision for the dead, though the extent to which such
funerary goods provide evidence for a belief in an afterlife is uncertain. Burials from the Middle Paleolithic period were in pits, with the body in a contracted position. From the Natufian culture come contracted burials but also
burials involving just the skull. In the Neolithic period, burials were sometimes made beneath the floors of houses. From this period come the famous
Excavations in progress: an
anthropoid coffin (c.14th–13th
century bce) being unearthed
at Deir el Balah.
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plastered skulls from Jericho (see below on ‘Human, animal, and plant
remains’). A remarkable feature of burials from the Chalcolithic period was
the use of clay ossuaries. These boxes were often in the shape of houses and
were used for the storage of bones after the decomposition of the flesh. In
the Early Bronze Age, many tombs comprised a shaft leading into a burial
chamber, but there is also evidence of the construction of megalithic tombs.
Stone-built tombs, sometimes inside towns and close to houses, are known
from the Middle Bronze Age. In the Negeb, the construction of tumuli, covering stone cists in which the body would have been placed, was widespread.
Shaft tombs were widely used in the Late Bronze Age.
The Iron Age saw the development of multi-chamber tombs, with benches along the walls on which the bodies would be laid, and sometimes with
places for the collection together of disconnected bones. Thereafter, a variety of types of tomb continued to be used, ranging from small individual
graves to rock-hewn structures and extensive catacombs. Examples of some
differing styles of tomb construction are to be found in the Kidron valley.
Many Roman period tombs comprised a corridor leading from a forecourt
into one or more chambers in whose walls were burial recesses (loculi). From
Jerusalem come some elaborate examples such as the so-called ‘Tombs of
the Kings’ and the tomb of Queen Helena of Adiabene. The outer doors of
some such tombs would be blocked by a rectangular stone slab, but others
would have been closed by a large circular stone which would be rolled in a
groove. In the 1st century ce, a new type of tomb was developed, involving
benches inside arched recesses (arcosolia). The use of ossuaries was widespread in the early Roman period.
Human, animal, and plant remains
The discovery of human and animal remains has always been a feature of
archaeology. Cemeteries and tombs have yielded human bones, and the discovery of animal bones has sometimes been a pointer to the identification of
a site as a place of sacrifice. At Lachish, for example, a tomb in a large cave
contained the remains of about 2,000 bodies, some of which showed signs of
charring, suggesting the possibility that they were deposited there after some
attack on the city, perhaps at the time of Sennacherib’s campaign in 701 or
when it fell to the Babylonians c.597. A feature of some of the skulls found at
Lachish is that they may show evidence of trepanning, the surgical removal
of a segment of bone to relieve pressure on the brain. A somewhat different
example of the discovery of human remains is that of the plastered skulls
found at Jericho and a number of other sites, dating from the Pre-Pottery
Neolithic B period (that is, from the late 8th millennium to the early 6th millennium bce) and perhaps reflecting some form of ancestor cult.
In recent years, the application of archaeozoology (the study of animal
remains) and palaeoethnobotany (the study of botanical remains – including
palynology, the analysis of pollen grains in soil) has begun to make an
increasing impact on the study of the ancient Near East in general and the
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Levant in particular. They shed light, for example, on the ancient environments, the domestication of plants and animals, diet, various cultural practices, and even such things as trade (showing, for example, whether wood
used for building was local or imported). Of particular interest for the study
of the Bible has been evidence for the domestication of and the eating of the
pig, in view of the biblical prohibitions (for example, Lev. 11: 7). Evidence suggests that, after the Middle Bronze Age, apart from its use by the Philistines,
the eating of the pig was not common until the Hellenistic period. The date
of the domestication of the camel has been an issue in the context of the discussion of the dating of certain biblical traditions and whether references to
camels are anachronistic. Evidence suggests the presence of camels in the
Levant in the 3rd millennium, though it is not clear whether these were wild
or domestic. After the beginning of the 1st millennium bce, camel bones
begin to appear in a number of places, although they are still relatively rare.
From Tell Jemme, south of Gaza, there is evidence of significant use of the
camel from the 8th to the 7th centuries, perhaps reflecting its position close
to major trade routes, and that camel numbers increased in the Persian period. More generally, the use of the camel seems to have become more widespread in the Levant during the Persian period.
Written documents
Written documents revealed by archaeology are of a great variety of types
and what follows is illustrative – in no sense exhaustive – and only attempts to
deal with the principal types. Particular mention will be made of some examples of documents relevant to the study of the Bible.
Inscriptions were carved on the walls of buildings and other structures, or
even into the rock of a cliff or a tunnel or a tomb. The ‘Behistun Inscription’
(see on ‘Writing Systems’) was carved high on a rock face. In Egypt, carvings
on the walls and columns of temples and other buildings, and texts painted
on the inner walls of pyramids and burial chambers have provided a major
source of information about Egyptian history and religion. Inside ‘Hezekiah’s Tunnel’ in Jerusalem was the famous ‘Siloam Inscription’ describing the
tunnel’s construction (see ‘Jerusalem in the 1st Millennium bce’). Approximately contemporary was the inscription carved into the lintel of a rock-cut
tomb at Silwan (Siloam), overlooking the Kidron valley and Jerusalem. The
damaged inscription suggested that the tomb was that of someone whose
name ended -yahu (usually anglicized as -iah in personal names) and who was
(literally) ‘over the house’, that is, a steward. In Isaiah 22: 15–16, this precise
description (NRSV ‘master of the household’) is used of the royal steward
Shebna, who is criticized for ‘cutting a tomb on the height’. Although the
form of the name used in Isaiah does not have the ending preserved on the
inscription, it is likely that it is an abbreviated form of the fuller name Shebaniah, and it is therefore possible that the tomb inscription refers to the person
mentioned in Isaiah. From the theatre at Caesarea comes an inscription
carved on stone which, although damaged and incomplete, almost certainly
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One of the most important advances in human civilization was the invention of writing. The ancient Near East
saw the development of several systems of writing.
Before the end of the 4th millennium bce two important
systems had developed, one at each end of the Fertile
Crescent.
three languages of the inscription were Old Persian,
Elamite, and Akkadian. An officer in the English army,
Major Henry Rawlinson, managed at no little risk to his
life to copy the Old Persian and Akkadian inscriptions
between 1843 and 1847, and the former proved to be the
key for the decipherment of the latter.
Cuneiform
In the southern part of Mesopotamia, the Sumerians
had begun to use simple depictions of objects, drawn on
clay tablets with a pointed stylus of reed or wood. The
fact that these pictures were accompanied by what were
Hieroglyphs
In Egypt, another script based on the drawing of pictures was developed. This came to be known as ‘hieroglyphic’. Signs which originally represented a simple
object were grouped together to express more complicated ideas, and gradually they too came to represent
sounds. The decipherment of hieroglyphics came
about as a result of Napoleon’s 1798 campaign to Egypt.
In the course of excavations in preparation for the construction of a fort near Rosetta in the Nile Delta region,
there was discovered a black basalt slab with writing on
Clay tablet inscribed with a pictographic script and indications
of numbers.
probably indications of numbers suggests that they
were perhaps lists. In the course of time, the pictures
were simplified to a limited number of strokes which,
because of the method of writing using a stylus on a clay
tablet, were ‘wedge-shaped’, i.e. cuneiform. Gradually
the signs came to stand not only for the name of the
object portrayed, but for the sound conveyed by the
name. This cuneiform script was adopted by the Akkadians to write their Semitic language which, by the second millennium, had become virtually a lingua franca
throughout much of the ancient Near East. The Akkadian language was deciphered as a result of the discovery
of a huge trilingual inscription carved into the rock on a
cliff face at Behistun, in what is now Iran, recording the
successes of Darius the Great (522–486) over his opponents after his succession to the throne (see p. 125). The
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it. This turned out to be a record of a decree issued by
the priests of Memphis early in the 2nd century bce. The
inscription was bilingual, even though the writing was
in three sections, the topmost in the hieroglyphic script,
the middle in the demotic script (a more everyday form
of Egyptian handwriting), and crucially the bottom section was in Greek. Although it was surrendered to the
British in 1801 and taken to the British Museum, it was a
Frenchman, Jean François Champollion who, building
on earlier work on the proper names in the inscription,
was able to use the ‘Rosetta Stone’ in achieving the
essentials of the decipherment of hieroglyphics.
Alphabets
A major advance in the development of writing systems
can also be observed in the ancient Near East. The
cuneiform and hieroglyphic scripts required large numbers of signs to write them, hence the development of
systems based on the simplest consonantal sounds.
Early in the 20th century, inscriptions were found in or
around the turquoise mining centre of Serabit el-
the cuneiform method. It comprised about 30 relatively
simple signs. (For a picture, see on ‘Ugarit’.) It can
appropriately be described as an alphabet since almost
all the signs represent a single consonantal sound.
The linear alphabetic method of writing was adapted
for the writing of Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic and
other languages or dialects such as Moabite. Probably
the earliest example of the Old (or palaeo-) Hebrew
script is the ‘Gezer Calendar’ dating from about the 10th
century bce. (For a brief description and a picture, see
on ‘Climate, Flora and Fauna: main crops’.) Other
examples of its use can be seen in the Siloam Inscription
(see on ‘Jerusalem in the 1st Millennium bce’) and in the
Lachish Letters (see on ‘Lachish’). A fine example of this
script is the seal of Shema, the servant of Jeroboam, the
original of which was found at Megiddo. The ‘square’
characters familiar from the Hebrew Bible and other
documents such as the Dead Sea Scrolls (though there
are a few examples of palaeo-Hebrew in those texts)
were adopted from the Aramaic script. Aramaic was
widely used throughout the Persian Empire and the
Aramaic script gradually supplanted the Old Hebrew
script for the writing of Hebrew, just as Aramaic began
to replace Hebrew as the everyday spoken language.
It was the Greeks who made the further development of introducing vowels to the alphabet. They had
encountered Phoenician, probably in the context of
trade, and adopted their script. Since they did not need
all the consonantal sounds of Phoenician, they retained
those which were required but used others to represent
vowels. Thus the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet
which was a consonant (the equivalent of Hebrew ’`alep)
¯
became in Greek alpha, the ‘a’ vowel. The Greek alphabet was adopted and adapted by the Romans for the
writing of Latin.
Proto-Sinaitic script from Serabit el-Khadim.
Khadim in the Sinai peninsula. These were thought to
have been written by Semitic workers employed by the
Egyptians and to date from the 15th century bce. The
picture-signs were perhaps borrowed from the Egyptians, but the important advance was that they represented a single consonantal sound, probably that the
first consonant of the name of the depicted object.
These ‘Proto-Sinaitic’ inscriptions represent one of the
earliest known examples of an alphabet.
Further north, and certainly by the 14th century bce,
the scribes of Ugarit were using the cuneiform method
for writing their own Semitic language. It is possible that Cast of a seal from Megiddo, showing a lion and bearing the
it was developed from an earlier linear script, adapted to inscription ‘(Belonging) to Shema, Servant of Jeroboam’.
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mentions Pontius Pilate. An inscription from Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem,
written in Greek, warns Gentiles not to enter the court of Israel on pain of
death. (See Acts 21: 27–9, which record that Paul was accused of having introduced a Gentile into the Temple, thereby defiling it.)
A number of important inscriptions take the form of stelae or obelisks,
inscribed standing stones set up to record, for example, the deeds of a king.
The earliest mention of a people ‘Israel’ is to be found on the Stele of Merneptah, set up in Egypt towards the end of the 13th century bce and claiming
to record the victories of the pharaoh. From the 9th century comes the stele
of Mesha, king of Moab, sometimes known as the ‘Moabite Stone’. This
inscription, found at Dibon in Moab, mentions the Israelite king Omri, and
gives a contemporary account from a Moabite perspective of events recounted in 2 Kings 3. King Jehu is mentioned on the ‘Black Obelisk’ of Shalmaneser
III, which was erected by the Assyrian king at Calah early in the second half
of the 9th century. Not only is Jehu mentioned, there is even a picture of him
prostrating himself before Shalmaneser and bringing tribute – an event not
mentioned in the biblical narrative. From Tel Dan come fragments of a victory stele, dating from the 9th century and written in Aramaic, which mentions the ‘king of Israel’ and the ‘house of David’. The interpretation of the
phrase translated as ‘house of David’ has been a matter of considerable
debate, but it is possible that this inscription contains the first piece of extrabiblical evidence for the existence of King David. A stele which does include
some account of the deeds of a king, but whose primary purpose was somewhat different, is the Stele of Hammurabi. This was set up by the great king
of Babylon who reigned in the first half of the 2nd millennium bce, and contains his famous Law Code, one of a number of ancient Near Eastern law
codes with which the biblical laws can be compared.
A great many ancient documents take the form of clay tablets which provided a convenient surface for the writing of the cuneiform script (see on
‘Writing Systems’). Mention can only be made of a limited number of examples here. Before turning to tablets of what might be termed ‘conventional
shape’, that is, square or rectangular with writing on the obverse and reverse,
it should be noted that clay was also used for documents of other shapes. For
example, the six-sided clay ‘Prism of Sennacherib’ contains annals which
report his early military campaigns, including that of 701 bce in which he
claims to have besieged 46 fortified cities of Judah and surrounded King
Hezekiah in Jerusalem (see 2 Kgs. 18: 13–19: 36). Interestingly he does not
specifically mention his siege of Lachish (see on ‘Lachish’). The ‘Cyrus Cylinder’, also made of clay, contains an account by the Persian king of his conquest of Babylon in 539. This document does not specifically mention the
Jewish exiles, but it does refer to Cyrus’ policy of returning captive peoples to
their homelands.
The numerous clay tablets found in the course of archaeological excavations in the ancient Near East contain a great variety of types of material,
including administrative texts, legal documents, letters, ritual texts, myths,
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and epics. One advantage of conventionally shaped tablets was that they
could be ‘filed’ in sequence and stored in archives. At Ebla, for example,
tablets were discovered still in the rows in which they had been stored despite
the collapse of the shelving on which they were presumably placed. Other
major archives have been found in such places as the Amorite city of Mari on
the Euphrates and the Hurrian city of Nuzi, east of the Tigris. The majority
of the Mari texts probably date from the 18th century bce and shed light on
events and the way of life at that time. Of particular interest is the fact that
the texts refer to a number of types of person and activity which might
appropriately be described as ‘prophetic’. The texts from Nuzi date from the
16th and 15th centuries and provide evidence of Hurrian culture. Both the
Mari and Nuzi texts have been used in discussions about the extent to which
the stories of the Patriarchs in the Bible reflect any historical reality. In particular, apparent similarities were noticed between practices mentioned in legal
texts from Nuzi and in the biblical narrative. But the extent of such parallels
has been overstated, and the importance of the Mari and Nuzi texts lies in the
evidence they provide of life in the first half of the 2nd millennium bce.
At Ugarit were found numerous clay tablets, in archives in the royal palace,
in business premises, and private houses, and from what may perhaps appropriately be described as a temple library (see on ‘Ugarit’). From Emar, on the
Euphrates south east of Aleppo, come tablets from the 13th century, including a number, found in the ruins of a temple, which describe religious rituals.
From the library of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, dating from the 7th century bce, are tablets containing copies of the Babylonian account of creation,
Enuma Elish, and of the Epic of Gilgamesh. These stories, which go back to
much earlier originals, have been thought to contain some parallels with the
creation and flood stories in Genesis.
Another medium for writing was the ostracon, or potsherd. A piece of
broken pot could provide a suitable flat surface on which to write, using perhaps a brush, or a pen made from a sharpened stick, and
soot mixed with water and gum arabic for ink. Pieces of
pot might be used for recording deliveries of produce,
such as was the case with the 8th-century ostraca from
Samaria which provide useful information about personal and place names of the period. Or they might be used
for writing letters. Particularly noteworthy are the
Lachish Letters (see on ‘Lachish’).
It is perhaps appropriate to mention here that sometimes inscriptions are found as part of the decoration on
storage jars (pithoi). A particularly important example
comes from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud, dating from the end of the
9th or beginning of the 8th century. The jar was decorated with depictions of various animals and a stylized tree
and also two standing figures and a seated figure playing
a lyre. There is also an inscription, close to the standing
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Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh, from Nineveh, dating
from the 7th century bce. The
tablet contains one of the
Mesopotamian versions of the
Flood Story.
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A section of the ‘Temple
Scroll’ from Qumran, showing
where two pieces of parchment have been joined, how
the text is written in columns,
and how the upper part of the
columns has been damaged.
figures, which contains the phrase, ‘I bless you by Yahweh of Samaria and his
asherah’. Another storage jar from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud bears an inscription which
mentions ‘Yahweh of Teman and his asherah’. (A roughly contemporary
inscription from Khirbet el-Qom, carved in stone and originally in a burial
cave, contains the request that a certain Uriyahu may be blessed by Yahweh,
and saved from his enemies by ‘his asherah’.) The significance of these
inscription has been much debated, in particular whether the term asherah
refers to a cult object or to the goddess of that name and, if the latter,
whether this is evidence for the belief that Yahweh had a consort. Such
inscriptions are very important for the study of the religious beliefs of the
time.
Another important writing material is associated particularly with Egypt:
papyrus, prepared from strips of the pith of an aquatic reed. This produced
an excellent surface for writing or illustrations. An advantage of papyrus was
that it could be folded. Examples of papyrus documents relevant to the study
of the Bible include the following: the Egyptian text ‘The Wisdom of Amenemope’ which has close parallels with parts of the Book of Proverbs; the
papyri from Elephantine on the Nile, dating from the 5th century bce and
written in Aramaic, which shed light on the life and religion of the Jewish
colony that established itself there; and the papyrus fragment of the Gospel
of John, dating from the early part of the 2nd century ce and probably the
earliest known New Testament manuscript.
The use of parchment was an important development in the production of
written manuscripts. It was made from the skins of sheep and goats, tanned
and cut into sheets. These might in turn be sewn together to produce scrolls.
Especially noteworthy among parchment documents are the Dead Sea
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Scrolls, the library of the Jewish group (probably Essenes) based at Qumran,
close to the shore of the Dead Sea, from the 2nd century bce to the 1st century ce. They include not only important community documents but the earliest known manuscripts of considerable sections of the Hebrew Bible. These
scrolls have been of immense value for the study of the biblical text and of
the beliefs and practices of a branch of Judaism which flourished at the turn
of the millennia. Parchment came to be used for the production of the codex,
that is, sheets bound together in book form. The Codex Sinaiticus, dating
from the 4th century ce, was so-called because it was found at the Monastery
of St Catharine in the Sinai peninsula in 1844. It was written on parchment in
Greek uncial (capital) letters. The codex originally contained the text of the
Septuagint, the New Testament, and a number of Deutero-canonical works,
though now some 300 pages are missing from the Septuagint section. It has
made an important contribution to the study of the text of the Bible.
Mention has been made above of inscriptions in tombs, and it also appropriate to mention that on some ossuaries (boxes carved out of stone, in
which bones would be stored after the flesh had decayed) were inscriptions
usually indicating the name or names of those whose bones were inside.
These seem to have been used in and around Jerusalem from the latter part
of the 1st century bce until the early 2nd century ce. The suggestion that
some of them bear Christian symbols, particularly crosses, is no longer
thought to be a likely explanation of the marks. Excitement over the apparent discovery of an ossuary bearing an inscription mentioning ‘James the
brother of Jesus’ is widely held to have been misplaced because the inscription was a hoax.
Extra-biblical texts and the Bible
The rich variety of types of written material from the ancient Near East
enables the world from which the Bible emerged and in which the Bible is set
to be seen in clearer focus. Much attention has been paid to the myths and
legends of the Mesopotamians and the Canaanites, not least because of the
Bible’s own suggestion that the people of Israel and Judah emerged from
Mesopotamian ancestry, settled among Canaanites, and were exiled in Babylon. But the mythology of other ancient peoples such as the Egyptians and
the Hittites, now known as a result of archaeological activity, have also been
welcomed as shedding light on the religious beliefs of the ancient Near East.
Light has been shed on religious practices thanks to the discovery of ritual
texts, sacrifice lists, divinatory texts, prayers, and incantations. There are
texts which refer to the practice of prophecy, and others which belong to the
Wisdom tradition. Ancient law codes reveal that sophisticated legal systems
had developed, and that it was believed that the law had divine sanction. The
discovery of ancient Near Eastern treaties and the analysis of their form has
given rise to the suggestion that this treaty-form is reflected in some passages
which present one of the profoundest of the Bible’s religious themes, that of
covenant.
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It is not only in what might broadly be termed the field of religion that
ancient textual material is relevant to the study of the Bible. Annals and lists
of rulers can help with the establishing of chronology and shed light on the
political world. Administrative documents, even the most mundane, provide
clues as to the way of life of those who produced them. Lexical texts contribute to the study of the languages of the biblical world and, from time to
time, on the languages of the Bible, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
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dates
period
syria-palestine
egypt
mesopotamia
asia-minor
c.43,000–18,000 bce
upper paleolithic
c.18,000–8500 bce
epipaleolithic
c.8500–4500 bce
neolithic
c.4500–3300 bce
chalcolithic
c.3300–2000 bce
early bronze age
3300–3100 bce
Early Bronze I
3100–2700 bce
Early Bronze II
In Egyptian sphere
Political unification
Early Dynastic period
Floruit of Sumerian culture
2700–2300 bce
Early Bronze III
Flourishing city-states
Old Kingdom
Dynasties 3–5
Sargon of Akkad
Naram-Sin of Akkad
Gudea of Lagash
2300–2000 bce
Early Bronze IV
Decline/abandonment
of city-states
First Intermediate Period Third Dynasty of Ur
c.2000–1550 bce
middle bronze age
2000–1650 bce
Middle Bronze I–II
Revival of urbanism
Invention of alphabet
Middle Kingdom
Dynasties 11–12
1650–1550 bce
Middle Bronze III
c.1550–1200 bce
late bronze age
Early stages of urbanization throughout the Near East
Earliest forms of writing
Full urbanization
Sumerian culture develops
Amorite kingdoms
Shamshi-Adad of Assyria
(c.1813–1781)
Hammurabi of Babylon Rise of Hittites
(c.1792–1750)
Second Intermediate/
Hyksos Period
In Egyptian sphere
New Kingdom
Rise of Mitanni in north Dynasties 18–19
Ugarit flourishes
Thutmose III (1479–1425)
Akenhaten (1352–1336)
Seti I (1294–1279)
Rameses II (1279–1213)
Merneptah (1213–1203)
Collapse of city-states
Sea Peoples’ invasions begin
Hittites challenge Egypt
for control of Syria
Hittite empire collapses
Trojan War
Chronology
dates
period
syria-palestine
egypt
mesopotamia
c.1200–586 bce
iron age
c.1200–1025 bce
Iron I
Israel emerges in Canaan
Philistines settle on SW coast
Small city-states develop in
Phoenicia, Syria,
Transjordan
Rameses III
(1184‒53)
Resurgence of Assyria
Tiglath-pileser I
(1114–1076)
c.1025–586 bce
Iron II
c.1025–928 bce
Iron IIA
United Monarchy in Israel
Saul (1025–1005)
David (1005–965)
Solomon (968‒928)
c.928–722 bce
Iron IIB
Divided Monarchy
Israel
Judah
Jeroboam I Rehoboam
Shishak I invades Palestine
(928–907) (928–911)
Rise of Neo-Assyrian empire(925)
Omri
(882–871)
capital at Samaria
Ahab
Jehoshapat
Shalmaneser III (858–824)
(873–852)
(867–846)
Battle of Qarqar (853)
Jehu
Athaliah
(842–814)
(842–836)
Jehoash
Adad-nirari III (811–783)
(836–798)
Jehoash
(800–788)
Jeroboam II
Tiglath-pileser III (745–727)
(788–747)
Assyrian conquest of the Levant
Hoshea
Ahaz
Shalmaneser V (727–722)
(732–722)
(743/735–727/715)
Samaria captured (722)
c.722–586 bce
Iron IIC
Judah
Hezekiah
(727/715–698/687)
Manasseh
(698/687–642)
Josiah (639–609)
Jehoahaz (609)
Jehoiakim (608–598)
Jehoiachin (597)
Zedekiah (597–586)
Capture of Jerusalem (586)
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Sargon II (722–705)
Sennacherib (705–681)
Attack on Judah and
Egypt conquered by
siege of Jerusalem (701)
Assyria (671)
Esarhaddon (681–669)
Psammetichus I (664–610) Ashurbanipal (669–627)
Rise of Babylon
Neco II (610–595)
Assyrian capital of
Nineveh captured (612)
Nebuchadrezzar II
(604–562) of Babylon
Chronology
dates
period
syria-palestine
c.586–539 bce
neo-babylonian
Nabonidus (556–539)
539–332 bce
persian
Cyrus II (the Great)
(559–530)
Capture of Babylon
Cambyses (530–522)
Capture of Egypt (525)
Darius I (522–486)
Greeks repel Persian invasions
Xerxes (486–465)
Artaxerxes I (465–424)
Peloponnesian War (431–404)
Artaxerxes II (405–359)
Some exiles return
from Babylon (538)
Second Temple built (520–515)
Nehemiah governor of Judah
(c.445–430)
332–63 bce
hellenistic
mesopotamia
greece and rome
Seleucus I (312/311–281)
controls Syria and Mesopotamia
Ptolemy I (323–282) controls
Egypt, Palestine, Phoenicia
Antiochus III (223–187) gains
control of southern Syria, Phoenicia,
and Judea from Ptolemy IV (202–198)
Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175–164)
Revolt of the Maccabees (167–164)
Hasmonean rule of Judea (165–37)
John Hyrcanus (135–104)
Alexander Janneus (103–76)
Salome Alexandra (76–67)
dates
period
eastern mediterr anean
63 bce–330 ce
roman
Pompey conquers the Levant (66–62)
Enters Jerusalem (63)
Alexander the Great (336–323)
Defeats Persians at Issus (332)
Occupies the Levant and Egypt
Rome gains control over Greece
(c.188–146; 146: sack of Carthage
and Corinth)
rome
Julius Caesar named dictator (49);
assassinated (44)
Octavian (Augustus) defeats Antony at
Actium (31) (emperor 27 bce–14 ce)
Herod the Great king of Judea (37–4)
Rebuilds Second Temple
(Herod) Antipas (4 bce–39 ce)
Life of Jesus of Nazareth (c.4 bce–30 ce)
Pontius Pilate governor of Judea (26–36)
(Herod) Agrippa I (39–44)
(Herod) Agrippa II (49–92)
First Jewish Revolt in Judea against Rome (66–73)
Jerusalem captured (70)
Jewish revolts in Egypt, Libya, Cyprus (115–118)
Second Jewish Revolt in Judea against Rome (132–135)
Tiberius (14–37 ce)
Gaius (Caligula) (37–41)
Claudius (41–54)
Nero (54–68)
Vespasian (69–79)
Titus (79–81)
Domitian (81–96)
Nerva (96–98)
Trajan (98–117)
Hadrian (117–38)
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ILLUSTRATION SOURCES
The author and publishers wish to thank the following for their kind permission to reproduce the following illustrations (l = left, r = right, t = top, b = bottom):
The Art Archive, 68 l (Dagli Orti), 68 r (National Museum Damascus, Syria/Dagli Orti)
www.bridgeman.co.uk, 48 (Bildarchiv Steffens), 69 r (Museum of Latakia, Latakia, Syria, Peter Willi)
The Trustees of the British Museum, 9, 43, 45, 70 b, 112, 119 t, 121, 192 r, 195
©Corbis, 11 (Hulton-Deutsch Collection), 70 t (Michael S Yamashita), 127 (Roger Wood), 171 (Michael
Boys)
Sonia Halliday Photographs, 10 ( Jane Taylor), 13, 23 t, 24, 25 ( Jane Taylor), 26 t (Barry Searle), 41 (Prue
Grice), 55, 74, 75, 81, 101 ( Jane Taylor), 116, 120, 135, 148, 153, 166, 180 ( Jane Taylor), 187
Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 119 b
Juergen Liepe, 39
© Photo RMN/Franck Raux 106
Zev Radovan, www.BibleLandPictures.com, 21, 22, 23 b, 26 b, 31, 32, 34, 37, 51, 52, 57, 59, 62, 86, 88, 89, 93,
96, 97, 104, 109, 118, 123, 142, 144, 149, 152, 154, 163, 164, 189, 192 l, 193, 196
Scala, Florence, Paris, Louvre ©1995, 69 l
Science Photo Library/Earth Satellite Corporation, 6, 18‒19
Picture research by Sandra Assersohn
Chronology (199‒201) reproduced from Michael D. Coogan (ed.), The Oxford History of the Biblical
World (1998), by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Fourth Edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas has been revised throughout from the Third Edition,
which was prepared by John Day. Day worked on the First Edition (Oxford University Press, 1962), edited by Herbert G. May with the assistance of G. N. S. Hunt in consultation with R. W. Hamilton.
Special thanks must be expressed to a number of people who have been instrumental in bringing this
work to completion: Terry Hardaker (of Oxford Cartographers, www.oxfordcarto.com) for his work
on the maps, Sandra Assersohn for researching the illustrations, Ann Hall and Alan Lovell for preparing the indexes, Lucy Qureshi (formerly of OUP) for co-ordinating the project during much of the production time, and Dorothy McCarthy, Sue Tipping and Rachel Woodforde (all of OUP) who have
contributed in their various ways to the production of the volume. All have shown a real commitment
to, and enthusiasm for, the preparation of this fourth edition. Their advice, encouragement and, not
infrequently, their patience are gratefully acknowledged.
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FURTHER READING
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Barton, J., and Muddiman, J. (eds.), The Oxford Bible Commentary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Borowski, O., Daily Life in Biblical Times, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2003.
Coogan, M. D. (ed.), The Oxford History of the Biblical World, New York and Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1998.
Davies, P. R., In Search of ‘Ancient Israel’ ( Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series
148), Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992.
Dever, W. G., What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?, Grand Rapids, Michigan
and Cambridge, 2001.
Duling, D. C., The New Testament: History, Literature and Social Context (4th edn.), London and Belmont,
Calif.: Wadsworth, 2003.
Esler, P. F. (ed.), The Early Christian World (2 vols.), London: Routledge, 2000.
Freedman, D. N. (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary (6 vols.), London and New York: Doubleday, 1992.
Fritz, V., An Introduction to Biblical Archaeology ( Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement
Series 172), Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1994.
Hallo, W. W., and Younger, K. L. (eds.), The Context of Scripture (3 vols.), Leiden and New York: Brill,
1996.
King, P. J., and Stager, L. E., Life in Biblical Israel, Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville/ London,
2001.
Murphy-O’Connor, J., The Holy Land (3rd edn.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Negev, A., and Gibson, S. (eds.), Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land (revised and updated edition), New York and London: Continuum, 2001.
Richard, S. (ed.), Near Eastern Archaeology: A Reader, Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2003.
Rogerson, J. W., and Davies, P. R., The Old Testament World (rev. edn.), London and New York: T. & T.
Clark/Continuum, 2005.
Soggin, J. A., An Introduction to the History of Israel and Judah (rev. edn.), London: SCM Press, 1993.
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Notes on the Index of Place Names
place names
Place names, ancient and modern, are listed alphabetically. Many biblical names are followed by alternative names. Such Arabic and Hebrew names are italicized.
Acre (Acco/Ptolemais/Tell el-Fukhkhar/[T. ‘Akko])
Here, Acre is followed by an alternative biblical name, the Greek name given to the city, the
Arabic name, and finally, in square brackets, the anglicized Hebrew name used in modern
Israeli publications. Anglicized Hebrew names often differ from names used in the RSV.
It should be noted that some modern towns and villages in Israel are not on the same site as
the biblical place of the same name. For example, the modern village Benei Beraq is not at
the Biblical Bene-berak: Bene(-)berak (Ibn beraq/[Horvat Bene-beraq]).
˙
Some of the alternative names listed are not shown on any map. They have been included for
information only.
Horvat and Khirbet mean ‘ruin’.
˙
Tel and Tell mean ‘a mound over an ancient site’.
T., Tel, and Tell are all listed under T.
page numbers
Page numbers follow a grid reference for each entry:
Tarsus
E2 169
F3 100, 128, 138, 159, 173, 178
The above indicates that on page 169 the town will be found in ‘square’ E2, whilst on pages
100, 128, etc it will be found in the ‘square’ F3. An entry such as:
Deir el-Balah (insert) 183
˙
indicates that Deir el-Balah has no grid reference and is to be found in a box set within the
˙
map on page 183.
Bold page numbers indicate a whole map, as in:
Judah (region and kingdom) 133
204
INDEX OF PLACE NAMES
Abana (river Nahr Barada) Z1 14,
105, 114
Abarim, Mountains of Y5 72
‘Abdah [‘Avdat] (insert) 182
Abdon (Khirbet ‘Abdeh/[T. ‘Avdon])
X2 84
Abel (Abel-beth-maacah/Abelmaim/T. Abil/[T. Avel Bet
Ma’akha]) Y2 14, 72, 92, 105
Abel-beth-maacah see Abel
Abel-maim see Abel
Abel-mehola (T. Abu Sus) Y4 84,
105, 114
Abel-shittim (Shittim/T. elHammam)
E2 79
Y5 72, 85, 114
Abelane (Abil el-Qamh Y2 150
Abila (T. Ahil) Y3 133, 146, 150
Abilene (region) G4 159, 173
Abu Ghosh (Qaryat el-‘Inab) X5 183
Abu Habbah (Sippar) H4 67, 111,
125, 128, 179
Abu Shusheh see Gezer
Abu Simbel F6 16, 100, 178
Abu S. ir (Busiris) F4 128
Abukir-Taufikiyeh (Canopus) F4
159, 173
Abydos (Dardanelles) see
Hellespont
Abydos (in Egypt, Arabet elMadfuneh) F5 66, 128, 178
Accaron (Ekron/Khirbet elMuqann‘/[T. Miqne]) W5 72,
85, 92, 105, 114, 133, 151
Acchabare (‘Akbaria) X3 150
Acco see Acre
Acco, Plain of X3 20
Achaea (region)
C2 168
D3 138, 158, 172
Achmetha (Hamadan) see
Ecbatana
Achor, Valley of (el-Bugei’a) X5 84,
105
Achshaph (Khirbet el-Harbaj/[T.
Regev?]) X3 72, 84
Achzib (Chezib/Khirbet Tel elBeid./[H. orvat Lavnin?]) W5 72,
114
Achzib (Ecdippa/ez-Zib/[T. Akhziv])
G4 178
X2 72, 84, 114, 150, 182
Acrabbein (Akrabatta/Akra battene/‘Aqraba) X4 133, 151
Acre (Acco/Ptolemais/Tell elFukhkhar/[T. ‘Akko])
E3 169
G4 66, 100, 110, 159, 173
X3 30, 33, 72, 84, 92, 105, 114, 146,
150, 182
Actium D3 158, 172
Adab (Bismaya) J4 179
Adadah (‘Ar‘arah/Aroer/[H. orvat
‘Aro‘er]) W6 72, 85
Adam (T. ed-Damiyeh) Y4 85, 114
Adana/Adaniya (Seyhan) G3 100
Adasa (Khirbet ‘Addasa) X5 151
Aden (Eden in Arabia) H8 100
‘Ader Y6 183
Adhaim (river) H3-4 67, 111, 125
Adiabene (region) H3 159
Adida (Hadid/el-Haditheh/T. H. adid)
W5 133, 151
Admah (possible location of ) Y6
72
see also Siddim, Valley of
Adora/Adoraim (Aduru/Dura)
X5 105, 133, 146, 151
Y3 72
Adramyttium (Edremit) E3 159, 172
Adria, Sea of B2-C3 158
Adriatic Sea
A3-B3 16
B1 168
Adulis (Massawa) G7 100
Adullam (T. esh-Sheikh
Madhkur/[H. orvat ‘Adullam])
X5 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133
Aduru (Adora/Adoraim/Dura)
X5 105, 133, 146, 151
Y3 72
Aegean Sea
C2-D2 168–9
C3-D3 16
D3-E3 128, 138, 158-9, 172
Aelana (Aila/‘Aqaba) F5 159
Aelia, Wall of 96
Aenon (Khirbet Umm el‘Umdan) Y4
150
Aetolia (region) D3 138
Afek see Aphek
‘Affuleh [‘Afula] X3 182
Africa (Roman province) B4-C4 158
‘Afula (‘Affuleh) X3 182
Agrigentum (Agrigento/Girgenti)
B3 158
Agrippa’s Wall 96
Agrippias (Anthedon/el-Blakhiyeh)
V5 133, 146, 151
Agrippina (Kaukab el-Hawa) Y3
150
Ahlab (Khirbet el-Mahalib/Mahalab)
X2 84, 114
Ahnes el-Medineh (Heracleopolis)
D4 78
F5 66
Ahnus F5 178
Ai (Aialon/Aiath/et-Tell)
E2 79
X5 72, 85, 105, 114, 151, 183
Aialon see Ai
Aiath see Ai
Aijalon (Yalo) X5 72, 85, 105
Aila (Aelana/‘Aqaba) F5 159
‘Ain (Ain-rimmon/Enrimmon/Khirbet
Khuweilfeh/[Tel
Halif]/Timmon) W6 133, 183
‘Ain ed-Duyuk X5 183
‘Ain el-Ma‘mudiyeh X5 183
‘Ain el-Weiba? (Oboth) E3 79
‘Ain Feshkha (En-Eglaim) X5 133,
183
‘Ain Husb (Hazazan˙ ˙
tamar/H
. azeva/Tamar,
fortress)
E3 79
X7 72, 92, 105
‘Ain Karim X5 183
‘Ain Qedeis (insert) 182
‘Ain Qudeirat (insert) 182
‘Ain Tabgha (Heptapegon) Y3 182
Ain-rimmon (‘Ain/Enrimmon/Khirbet Khuweil
feh/[Tel Halif]/Timmon) W6
133, 183
‘Akbaria (Acchabare) X3 150
Akhetaton (‘Amarna/Tell el-Amarna)
F5 66, 100,178
Akhisar (Thyatira)
D2 169
E3 159, 172
Akkad (region) H4-J4 67, 125
Akrabatta
(Acrabbein/Akrabattene/‘Aqra
-ba) X4 133, 151
Akrabattene see Acrabbatta
Akrabbim, Ascent of (Naqb es-Safa)
˙˙
X7 14, 72, 85
Alac˛a Hüyük F2 178
Alalakh (‘Atshana/Tell ‘Atshana) G3
˙ 178
˙
66, 100,
Alashehir (Philadelphia)
D2 169
E3 159, 172
Alashiya see Cyprus
Alborz (Elburz) Mountains L3-M3
17
‘Aleiyan (Kedemoth) Y5 72, 85
Alema (‘Alma/Helam) Z3 92
Aleppo
(Berea/Beroea/Haleb/H alab in
˙ 138,
Syria) G3 67, 100,˙ 110, 128,
179
Alexandretta see Alexandria (in
Syria)
205
Alexandria (Antiochia
Margiana/Mary/Merv) M3
129
Alexandria Aracho¯sio¯n (Ghazni)
N4 129, 139
Alexandria (in Carmania,
Gulashkird) L5 129, 139
Alexandria (in Egypt,
Iskandariyeh)
D3 169
E4 16, 128, 138, 159, 173, 178
Alexandria (in Syria, Alexandretta)
G3 138, 173
Alexandria (Troas)
D2 169
E3 159, 172
Alexandria Ario¯n
(Artacoana/Herat) M4 139
Alexandria Kapisa N3 139
Alexandrium (Qarn Sartabeh,
˙ 151
fortress) X4 133,˙ 146,
Alexandropolis (Kandahar) N4
129, 139
Aligora (Soli in Cyprus) F3 128
Alishar (Alis˛ar Hüyük/Ankuwa) G3
66, 178
‘Alma (Alema/Helam) Z3 92
Almon-diblathaim
(Bethdiblathaim/Dabaloth?/K
hirbet Deleitat esh-Sherqiyeh?)
Y5 105, 114, 133
Alulos (Halhul/Halhul) X5 151
˙ ˙ V6-W7 92
Amalekites (people)
Amanus Mountains
G2-3 16
G3 110
‘Amarna (Akhetaton/Tell el‘Amarna)
F5 66, 100, 178
Amasea G2 159, 173
Amastris F2 159, 173
Amathus (in Cyprus) F4 128, 178
Amathus (in Palestine, Tel ‘Ammata)
Y4 146, 150
Amfipolis see Amphipolis
Amida (Diyarbakir) H3 100
Amisus (Samsun) G2 159, 173
‘Amman
(Philadelphia/Rabbah/Rabbath
-ammon)
E2 79
G4 100, 138, 173, 178
Y5 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133, 146, 151,
183
Ammathus (Hammam
T. abariyeh/H
. ammam
T. everiya/[H
. ame
T. everiya]/Hammath) Y3 84,
150
Ammon (Oasis of Siwa) E5 138
Index of Place Names
Ammon (region)
G4 110, 124, 128
Y4-Z4 92, 114
Y5 133
Y5-Z5 20
Z4-5 72, 85, 100, 105
Ammonia (Paraetonium) E4 138
Amorites (people) Y4-6 72
Amorium F3 173
Amphipolis (Amfipolis/Neochori)
C1 168
D2 172
Amu Darya (river Oxus)
L2-N3 129, 139
O2-4 17
‘Ana (Anat) H4 125
Anab (Khirbet ‘Anab es -S. eghireh)
W6 85
Anaharath (en-Na‘ura?) X3 72
Ananiah (el-‘Azariyeh/Bethany) X5
146, 151
Anat (‘Ana) H4 125
Anathoth (Ras el-Kharrubeh) X5 85,
92, 105, 114, 133, 151
Anathu Borcaeus (Khirbet Berqit)
X4 151
Anatolia (Asia, region)
D2 169
E3 159, 172-3
E3-G3 178
Ancona B2 158
Ancyra F3 138, 159, 173
Andros (island) D3 178
Ankara
E2 169
F3 178
Ankuwa (Alishar/Alis˛ar Hüyük)
G3 66, 178
Ano-Englianos (Pylos) D3 66, 178
Anshan (Tall-i Malyan) (region and
city) K4 125, 129
Antakiyeh/Antakya see Antioch
(in Syria)
Antalya (Attalia)
D2 169
F3 159, 173, 178
Anthedon (Agrippias/el-Blakhiyeh)
V5 133, 146, 151
Anti-Lebanon Mountains Y1 14
Antioch on Chrysorhoas
(Gerasa/Gergesa/Jerash)
G4 173, 178
Y4 133, 138, 146, 150, 182
Antioch (in Syria,
Antakiyeh/Antakya)
E2 169
G3 16, 138, 159, 173, 178
Antioch in Pisidia (Yalvac˛)
D3 169
F3 159, 173, 178
Antiochia Margiana
(Alexandria/Mary/Merv) M3
129
Antiochus, Kingdom of F3 173
Antipatris (Aphek/Pegai/Tell Ras
el-‘Ain) W4 72, 85, 133, 146, 151,
183
Antium (Anzio) B2 158
Anzio see Antium
Apamea (in Phrygia,
Celaenae/Famiyeh) F3 138,
173
Apamea (in Syria, Famiya, Qal‘at
Mud. iq) G3 159, 173
Apennine Mountains
A3 16
B2 158
Aphairema
(Ephraim/Ephron/Ophrah/et.T.aiyibeh) X5 85, 92, 105, 133, 151
Aphek (in Asher, Aphik/T.
Kurdaneh/[T. Afeq]) X3 84
Aphek (in Benjamin) see Antipatris
Aphek (in Transjordan, En-gev/Fiq)
Y3 105
Aphek, Tower of (Majdal Yaba) W4
151
Aphek/Pegai (Antipatris/Tell Ras
el-‘Ain) W4
Aphik (Aphek in Asher/T.
Kurdaneh/[T. Afeq]) X3 84
Apollonia (Pollina)
C1/2 168
D2 158, 172
Apollonia Sozusa (Arsuf) W4 133,
146, 151
Appia F3 173
Appian Way B2-C2 158
Appii Forum B2 158
‘Aqaba (Aelana/Aila) F5 159
‘Aqaba, Gulf of
D4-E3 79
F4 16
Aqar Quf H4 179
‘Aqraba
(Acrabbein/Akrabbata/Akrabattene) X4 133, 151
Ar (el-Mis.na‘) Y6 72, 114
Arabah, Sea of see Dead Sea
Arabah, The (el-Ghor)
E3 79
F4 16
X6 14
Y3-4 84-5, 92, 114
Y4 33, 72, 105
see also insert on 182
Arabbeh (Arubboth) X4 72, 92
Arabet el-Madfuneh (Abydos in
Egypt) F5 66, 128, 178
Arabia (region)
G4-J6 67, 100, 110-11, 128-9, 138-9
see also Nabataean Kingdom
Arabian Desert
E3/4-F3/4 79
G4-H4 159
H4-J5 16-17
Z4-5 14, 20, 30, 33
Arachosia (region) M4-N4 129, 139
Arad (T.‘Arad)
E2 79
X6 183
see also Great Arad
Aradus (Arvad/Erwad/Ruwad) G4
66, 100, 110, 124, 128
Araks (river Aras/Araxes) J3 129,
139, 159
Aral Sea O2-3 17
Aram (in Syria) Z2 72
Aram (region) see Syria (region)
‘Araq el-Emir Y5 133, 183
‘Ar‘arah (Adadah/Aroer/[H
. orvat
‘Aro‘er]) W6 72, 85
Ararat (Urartu, region) see
Armenia
Aras (river Araks/Araxes) J3 129,
139, 159
Araxes (river Araks/Aras) J3 129,
139, 159
206
Arbatta (region) W3-X3 133
Arbela (in Assyria, Arbil/Erbil) H3
67, 100, 111, 128, 138, 159
Arbela (in Galilee, Khirbet Irbid) X3
133, 182
Arbela (in Transjordan, Betharbel/Irbid) Y3 105, 133, 150
Arbil see Arbela (in Assyria)
Arca (region) G4 159, 173
Archelais (in Cappadocia) F3 159,
173
Archelais (in Judea, Khirbet ‘Auja etTah. ta) X5 146, 151
Ardashir (Artaxata) H2 159
Areius (river Heri Rud) M3-N3 139
Areopolis (Rabbathmoab/Khirbet
er-Rabba) Y6 151
Arezzo (Arretium) B2 158
Argob (region) Z3 72
Y3-Z3 92
Argos D3 66, 178
Aria (region) M4 129, 139
Arieus (river) M3-4 129
Arimathea
(Rathamin/Ramathaim/
Ramathaim-zophim) X4 133,
151
Ariminum (Rimini) B2 158
Aristobulias (Khirbet Istabul) X6 151
Armenia (Ararat/Urartu, region)
G3-H3 67
H3 111, 125, 128, 138
H3-J3 179
Armenia, Kingdom of H2-J3 159
Armenia, Lesser G2-3 159
Arnon (river, Wadi Mojib)
E2 79
Y6 14, 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133, 146,
151, 183
Aroer (in Moab, ‘Ara‘ir) Y6 14, 72,
85, 92, 105, 114, 183
Aroer (in Negeb,
Adadah/‘Ar‘arah/[H
. orvat
‘Aro‘er]) W6 72, 85
Arpad (T. Erfad) G3 110, 125, 128
Arrapkha (Kirkuk) H3 100, 111, 125,
128
Arretium (Arezzo) B2 158
Arsinoe F4 138
Arslan Tash G3 179
Arsuf (Apollonia Sozusa) W4 133,
146, 151
Artacoana (Alexandria
Ario¯n/Herat) M4 139
Artaxata (Ardashir) H2 159
Arubboth (Arabbeh) X4 72, 92
Arumah (Khirbet el-‘Ormeh)
X3-4 72
X4 85
Arus X4 151
Arvad (Aradus/Erwad/Ruwad) G4
66, 100, 110, 124, 128
Asagarta (Sagartia, region) K6-L4
129
Ascalon see Ashkelon
Ashan (Khirbet ‘Asan) W6 85
Ashdod (Azotus/Isdud/[T. Ashdod])
D2 79
F4 128, 138, 151
W5 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133, 146
Asher (tribe and land of ) X2-3 84,
105, 114
Ashkelon
(Ascalon/‘Asqalan/[Ashqelon])
Baths of (Maiumas Ascalon) V5
151
F4 66, 100, 124
W5 30, 33, 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133,
146, 151, 183
Ashqelon see Ashkelon
Ashtaroth (Tell Ashtarah) Z3 72, 84,
105, 114
Asia (Anatolia, region)
E3 159, 172-3
E3-G3 178
see also Seleucid Empire
Asia Minor (region)
B1-E1 79
D3-G2 16
Asochis (Shihin/Khirbet el-Lon) X3
133
Asor (Nazor/Yazur) W4 85, 114
Asphaltitis, Lake see Dead Sea
‘Asqalan see Ashkelon
Asshur (Qal‘at Sherqat) H3 100, 111,
125, 128, 179
Assiut.
(Astut/Asyut. /Lycopolis/Siut. )
F5 110, 138
Assos (Behramköy)
D2 169
E3 159, 172, 178
Assuwa (region) E2-3 66
Assyria (region)
H3 67
H3-J4 100, 110, 125
Assyrian Empire 110-11
Astrabad (Gorgan) K3 129, 139
Astut. (Assiut/Asyut./Lycopolis/Siut.)
F5 110, 138
Aswan (Syene) F6 66, 100, 110, 124,
128, 138
Asyut. see Astut.
Ataroth (in Ephraim, T. Mazar) X4
85
Ataroth (Khirbet ‘At. .t arus) Y5 72,
105, 114
Athens
C2 168
C3 16
D3 66, 124, 128, 138, 158, 172, 178
‘Athlit (Buculon Polis/Pilgrims’
Castle) W3 150, 182
Athribis (T. Atrib)
B3 78
F4 110
Atrak (river) M3-N3 17
‘At. shana (Alalakh/Tell ‘A.t shana)
G3 66, 100, 178
Attalia (Antalya)
D2 169
F3 159, 173, 178
Auja el-Ha. fir (Nessana/[Nitsana])
F4 178
see also insert on 182
Auranitis (region) Z3 146
Avaris (Rameses/PiRamesse/Qantir)
B3 78
F4 66
‘Avdat (‘Abdah) (insert) 182
Axius (river) D2 172
Ayia Triada (Hagia Triada) D3 178
‘Azaz (Khazazu) G3 124-5
Azekah (Tell Zakariyeh/[T. ‘Azeqa])
E2 79
W5 85, 105, 114, 133, 183
Azmon (Qes.eimeh) D3 79
Index of Place Names
Azotus see Ashdod
Azotus Paralius (Minet el-Qala‘)
W5 151, 183
Azov, Sea of F1-G1 16
Baal-gad Y2 84
Baal-hazor (T. ‘As.ur) X5 92, 105
Baal-meon (Beth-meon/Beth-baalmeon/Beon/Ma‘in) Y5 72, 85,
105, 114, 183
Baal-peor (Beth-peor/Khirbet ‘Ayun
Musa) Y5 85, 105
Baal-shalisha(h) (Kefr Thilth) X4 85,
105
Baal-zephon C3 78
Baalah (Kiriath-jearim/Deir el‘Azhar/T. Qiryat Ye‘arim) X5
85, 92, 114, 133
Baalah, Mount (Mudhar) W5 85,
105, 114
Baalath? (Qatra?) W5 85, 92, 105,
114
Ba‘albek (Heliopolis in Syria) G4
173, 178
Bab ed-Dra‘ Y6 72, 183
Babylon (in Egypt, Fost.at. ) F5 159
Babylon (in Mesopatamia)
H4 67, 100, 111, 125, 128, 138, 159,
179
J3 17
Babylonia (region) H4-J4 67, 100,
111, 125
Bac˛a (el-Buqes˛a) X3 150, 182
Bactra (Balkh) N3 129
Bactria (region) M3-N3 129, 139
Badari F5 178
Bahnassa (Oxyrhynchus) F4 159,
178
Bahrain (Dilmun) K5 67, 100
Balikh (river) G3 110, 125
Balikhu (T. Djigle) G3 125
Balkan Mountains B2-C2 16
Balkh (Bactra) N3 129
Balu‘a Y6 183
Baluchistan (region) M5-N6 17
Banias (Beth-rehob/Rehob) Y2 84,
92
Banias (Caesarea Philippi/Paneas)
see Caesarea Philippi
Bashan (Der‘a/Edrei) Z3 72, 84, 105
Bashan (region)
G4 100
Y2-Z3 92
Y3-Z2 14, 30
Y3-Z3 20, 72, 84, 105
Bas.ir? (Bathyra) Z2 146
Batanea (region) Y3-Z3 146
Baths of Ascalon W5 151
Bathyra (Bas.ir?) Z2 146
Battir (Bethir) X5 183
Bawit F5 178
Bedrai (Der) J4 125, 128
Beer (el-Bireh) X3 84
Beer-Sheba (T. es-Seba‘/[T. Beer
Sheva‘])
F4 66
W6 33, 72, 85, 105, 114, 133, 183
see also insert on 182
Beer-Sheba, Valley of (Wadi Bir
es- Seba‘) W6 14
Beeroth (Bene-jaakan/Birein) D3 79
Beeroth (in Benjamin, Nebi
Samwil?) X5 85, 92, 133
Beersheba (Bersabe)
E2 79
W6 14, 30, 92, 146, 151
Beerzeth (Berzetho/Bir Zeit) X5
133, 151
Behistun (Bisutun) J4 129, 179
Behramköy (Assos)
D2 169
E3 159, 172, 178
Beidha (insert) 182
Beirut see Berytus
Beit Alfa (Beth Alpha) X3 182
Beit ‘Anan (Beth-hanan) X5 92
Beit ‘At.ab? (Lehi) X5 85
Beit Hashit. t.a (Beth Hashit.ta) X3 182
Beit Illo (Ilon) X5 151
Beit Jabr et-Tahtani (Taurus,
fortress) X5 151
Beit Jibrin (BethGubrin/Betogabri) W5 146,
151, 183
Beit Jimal W5 183
Beit Lah.m see Bethlehem
Beit Nabala ([H. orvat
Nevallat]/Neballat) W5 133
Beit Nattif (Bethletepha) W5 151, 183
Beit She‘arim see Beth She‘arim
Beit S. ur see Beth-zur
Beit ‘Ur el-Foqa (Upper Bethhoron) X5 85, 92, 151
Beit ‘Ur et-Tah.ta (Lower Bethhoron) X5 85, 92, 151
Beitin see Bethel
Belgrade (Beograd/Singidunum)
D2 158
Belus (river Kedron/Nahr Rubin)
W5 151
Bemesilis (el-Meseliyyeh) X4 150
Bene-berak (Benei-berak/Ibn
beraq/[H. orvat Bene--beraq]) W4
114, 183
Bene-jaakan (Beeroth/Birein) D3
79
Benei-berak (modern Benei-beraq)
W4 183
Beneventum (Benevento) B2 158
Beni-h.asan
B5 78
F5 66, 178
Benjamin (tribe and land of ) X5 85,
105
Beograd (Belgrade/Singidunum)
D2 158
Beon see Baal-meon
Beracah, Vale of (Wadi Ghar) X5-6
105
Berea (Beroea/H. aleb/H. alab) see
Aleppo
Berea (in Palestine, Nebi Samwil?)
X5 151
Berea (in Syria) see Aleppo
Berenike G6 100
Bergama see Pergamum
Beroea (in Greece/Macedonia, Verria)
C2 168
D2 158, 172
Beroea (in Syria) see Aleppo
Bersabe see Beersheba
Bersabe (in Galilee, Khirbet Abu eshSheba‘) X3 150
Bersinya? (Rogelim) Y3 92
Berytus (Beirut) G4 66, 100, 110,
138, 159, 173
Berzetho (Beerzeth/Bir Zeit) X5
133, 151
Besara (Khirbet Bir el-Beidar) X3 150
Besor, Brook (Wadi
Ghazzeh/[Habesor]) V6-W6 85,
92, 105, 114, 151
Bet Dagan see Beth-dagon
Bet Dagan (Beth-dagon/Khirbet
Dajun) W5 72, 85, 114
Bet Leh.em Hagelilit see Bethlehem
(in Galilee)
Beth Alpha (Beit Alfa) X3 182
Beth Hashit.t.a [Beit Hashitta] X3
˙˙
182
Beth She‘arim (Hippeum/[Beit
She‘arim]/Sheikh Abreiq) X3
146, 150, 182
Beth-anath (S. afed el-Battikh?) X2 72,
˙˙
84
Bethany (Ananiah/el-‘Azariyeh) X5
146, 151
Betharamphtha ( Julias/Livias/T.
er-Rameh) Y5 146, 151
Beth-arbel see Arbela (in
Transjordan)
Beth-aven see Bethel
Beth-baal-meon see Baal-meon
Beth-basi (Khirbet Beit Bas..sa) X5 133,
151
Beth-dagon (Khirbet Dajun/[Bet
Dagan]) W5 72, 85, 114
Beth-diblathaim (Almon-diblath
aim/Dabaloth?/Khirbet Deleitat
esh-Sherqiyeh?) Y5 105, 114, 133
Beth-eden (Bit-adini/Eden, region)
G3 110-11
Beth-eglaim (Tell el-‘Ajjul)
F4 178
V6 72
see also insert on 183
Bethel (Beitin/Beth-aven/Luz)
E2 79
G4 66
X5 30, 33, 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133,
151, 183
Beth-ezel (Deir el-Asal) W6 114
Beth-gamul (Khirbet el- ej-Jumeil) Y6
114
Beth-gilgal see Gilgal (near Jericho)
Beth-Gubrin (Beit Jibrin/Betogabri)
W5 146, 151, 183
Beth-haccherem (Khirbet
S. alih/[Ramat Rahel]) X5 114,
˙
133, ˙183
Beth-haggan (Engannim/Ginae/Jenin) X4 30,
72, 84, 105
Beth-hanan (Beit ‘Anan) X5 92
Beth-horon X5 72, 105, 133
Lower (Beit ‘Ur et-Tahta) X5 85,
˙
92, 151
Upper (Beit ‘Ur el-Foqa) X5 85, 92,
151
Bethir (Battir) X5 183
Beth-jeshimoth (T. el-‘Azeimeh) Y5
72, 85
Bethlehem (in Galilee, Beit
Lahm/[Bet Lehem Hagelilit]) X3
˙
85 ˙
Bethlehem (in Judah, Beit Lahm) X5
˙ 151,
72, 84, 92, 105, 114, 133, 146,
183
Bethletepha (Beit Nattif) W5 151,
183
Bethmaus (T. Ma‘um) Y3 150
Beth-meon see Baal-meon
207
Beth-nimrah (T. el-Bleibil) Y5 72, 85
Beth-peor (Baal-peor/Khirbet ‘Ayun
Musa) Y5 85, 105
Bethphage X5 151
Beth-rehob (Banias/Rehob) Y2 84,
92
Beth-rehob (region) Y1-2 92
Bethsaida-Julias (el-‘Araj) Y3 146,
150
Beth-shan (Bethshean/Scythopolis/T. elH. us.n/[T. Bet Shean])
G4 178
X4 84, 114, 133
X4/Y4 30, 92, 146, 150
Y3 182
Y4 72
Beth-shean see Beth-shan
Beth-shemesh (in Egypt) see
Heliopolis (in Egypt)
Beth-shemesh (in Judah, Tell erRumeileh/[T. Bet Shemesh]) W5
72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 183
Bethsura see Beth-zur
Bethul/Bethuel (Khirbet er-Ras)
W6 85
Beth-yerah. (Khirbet elKerak/Philoteria/[T. Bet Yerah])
˙
Y3 72, 133, 150, 182
Beth-zaith (Bezeth/Beit Zeita) X5
133, 151
Beth-zechariah (Khirbet Beit
Zekaria) X5 133, 151
Beth-zur (Bethsura/Khirbet
Tubeiqa/[Beit S. ur]) X5 85, 105,
˙ 151, 183
133,
Betogabri (Beit Jibrin/Beth Gubrin)
W5 146, 151, 183
Betonim (Khirbet Batneh) Y5 85
Beycesultan E3 178 ˙
Beyond the River (region) G3-4
128
Bezek (Khirbet Ibziq) X4 84
Bezer? (Bozrah/Umm el-‘Amad?) Y5
72, 85, 105, 114
Bezeth (Beth-zaith/Beit Zeita) X5
133, 151
Bileam see Ibleam
Bir ‘Ali (Canneh/Qana) J8 100
Bir Zeit (Beerzeth/Berzetho) X5
133, 151
Birein (Beeroth/Bene-jaakan) D3
79
Birket Qarun see Qarun
Birs Nimrud (Borsippa) H4 67, 111,
128, 179
Bishapar K4 179
Bismaya (Adab) J4 179
Bisutun (Behistun) J4 129, 179
Bit-adini see Eden (region)
Bithynia and Pontus (region)
E1-F1 169
E2-F2 173
F2 159
see also Pontus
Bitter Lake, Great and Little C3 78
Black Sea (Euxine Sea/Pontus
Euxinus)
C1-J2 16
E1-F1 169
E2-G2 173
E2-H2 66-7, 110-11, 124-5, 128, 138,
178-9
F2-G2 159
Index of Place Names
Boazköy (Hattusa/Pteria) F2 66,
128, 138, 178
Bokhara M3 129
Bologna B2 158
Bononia B2 158
Borim (Khirbet Burin/[H. orvat Borin])
X4 105
Borsippa (Birs Nimrud) H4 67, 111,
128, 179
Bosora see Bozrah
Bosphorus
D2 16
E2 159, 173
Bosporan Kingdom G1 159
Bostra see Bozrah
Bozkath (Dawalimeh) W5 114
Bozrah (Bosora/Bostra/Bus.ra eskiSham)
E3 79
G4 100, 173
see also insert on 182
Bozrah (in Moab, Bezer?/Umm
el‘Amad?) Y5 72, 85, 105, 114
Brundidium (Brindisi) C2 158
Bubastis (Pi-beseth/Tell Basta)
˙
B3 78
F4 124, 138, 178
Bucolon Polis (‘Athlit/Pilgrims’
Castle) W3 150, 182
Buhen (Wadi H. alfa) F6 100
Burj el-Isaneh (el-Burj/Jeshanah)
X4 105
Bursa (Prusa) E2 159, 173
Busiris (Abu S. ir)
B3 78
F4 128
Bus. ra eski-Sham see Bozrah
(Bosora)
Buto (T. el-Far‘ain) A2 78
Buz (region) G5 100
Byblos (Gebal/Jebeil)
F3 16
G4 66, 100, 110, 124, 128, 138, 178
Byzantium
(Constantinople/Istanbul)
D1 169
E2 128, 138, 159, 173
Cabul (Chabulon/Kabul) X3 84, 92,
150, 182
Cadasa (Qadas) Y2 150
Caesarea (in Cappadocia,
Kayseri/Mazaca) G3 159, 173,
178
Caesarea (Strato’s
Tower/Qeis.ariyeh/[Qeisari])
E3 169
F4 159, 173
W3/4 146, 150, 182
W4 30, 33
Caesarea Philippi (Paneas/Banias)
G4 138, 159, 173
Y2 14, 146, 150
Cairo D4 169
Calah (Kalkhu/Nimrud) H3 67, 100,
111, 125, 179
Calchedon (Chalcedon/Kadiköy)
E2 138, 173
Callirrhoe (Zarat/Zereth-shahar)
Y5 85, 146, 151
Calno (Calneh/Kullanköy) G3
110
Campania (Capua/Santa Maria di
Capua Vetere) B2 158
Cana (Khirbet Qana) X3 150
Canaan, Land of 72, 84
Canaan (region)
D2-E2 79
F4-G4 66
Canea (Cydonia/Khania)
C3 16
D3 138
Canneh (Bir ‘Ali/Qana) J8 100
Canopus (Abukir-Taufikiyeh) F4 159,
173
Canusium C2 158
Capar Ganaeoi Y2 150
Caparorsa (Khirbet Khorsa) X6 151
Capernaum (T. H. um/[Kefar
Nahum]) Y3 146, 150, 182
˙
Capharabis
(Khirbet el-Bis) W5
151
Capharsalama (Khirbet Irha?) X5 151
Caphartobas (et-Taiyibeh/Kefar
˙˙
Turban?/Tob)
X5 151
Z3 84, 92
Caphtor see Crete
Capitolias Y3 150
Capnarsaba W4 151
Cappadocia
(Katpatuka/Kappadokia,
region)
E2-F1 169
F2-G2 128
F3-G3 138, 159, 173
Capparetaea (Khirbet Kufr H. atta)
W4 151
Capreae (Capri, island) B2 158
Capua (Campania/Santa Maria di
Capua Vetere) B2 158
Carchemish (Europus/Jerablus in
Syria) G3 67, 100, 110, 125, 128,
138, 159, 179
Caria (region) E3 124, 128, 138, 172-3
Cariathiareim (Deir el-Azhar) W5
151
Carmania (region) L5-M5 129,
139
Carmel (in Judah, Kermel) X6 14,
92, 105
Carmel, Mount (Jebel Mar Elyas)
W3-X3 30, 33, 72, 84, 92, 105,
114, 133, 146, 150
Carnain/Carnion
(Karnaim/Sheikh Sa‘d) Z3 72,
105, 114
Carpathos (island, Scarpanto)
D3 16
E3 178
Carrhae see Haran
Carthage B3 158
Casphor (Caspin/Chaspho/Khisfin)
Y3 133
Caspian Sea (Hyrcanian Sea/Mare
Caspium)
J2-K3 111, 125, 129, 139
K2-3 67, 179
K3 100
L3-N2 17
Caspin (Casphor/Chaspho/Khisfin)
Y3 133
Catana/Catania G3 158
Cataoniae (Comana Cappadociae)
G3 173
Cataract, First
F5 16
F6 66
208
Caucasus Mountains
H2-J2 128-9
J2-L2 16-17
Cauda (island, Gaudos/Gavdos)
D4 158, 172
Cave of Letters X6 183
Cedron (brook) see Kidron, Brook
Cedron (Kedron/Qatra) W5 133, 151
Celaenae (Apamea in˙
Phrygia/Famiyeh) F3 138, 173
Cenchrea(e) (Kechries)
C2 168
D3 158, 172
Cephalonia (island, Kefallinia) B3
16
Cerigo (island, Cythera/Kithira)
C3 16
D3 178
Ceyhan (river Jeyhan/Pyramos), G3
173, 179
Chabulon (Cabul/Kabul) X3 84, 92,
150, 182
Chagar Bazar H3 179
Chalcedon (Calchedon/Kadiköy)
E2 138, 173
Chalcis (region) G4 173
Chasphor/Chaspho
(Caspin/Kisfin) Y3 133
Chephirah (T. Kefireh) X5 85
Cherith, Brook (Wadi Yabis) Y4
105, 150
Chersonesus F2 159
Chesulloth (Chislothtabor/Exaloth/Iksal) X3 150
Chezib (Achzib/Khirbet Tel elBeid./[H.orvat Lavnin?]) W5 72, 114
Chinnereth/Chinneroth
(Gennesaret/Ginessar/Tell el‘Ureimeh/[T. Kinrot]) Y3 84,
105, 146, 150, 182
Chinnereth/Chinneroth, Sea of
see Galilee, Sea Of
Chios (island)
C3 16
D2 169
E3 158-9, 172, 178
Chisloth-tabor
(Chesulloth/Exaloth/Iksal) X3
150
Chittim see Cyprus
Chorasmia (Khwarizm, region) L2M2 139
Chorazin (Khirbet Kerazeh) Y3 146,
150, 182
Cilicia (Kizzuwatna/Khilakku,
region)
E2 169
F3 110, 128, 138
F3-G3 66, 178
port of (Magarsus) G3 178
Cilicia and Syria (region)
F3-G3 173
G3-4 159
Cilicia Trachea (region) F3 124,
159, 173
Cilician Gates, (pass)
F3 173
F3-G3 138
G3 128
Cimmerian Chersonese (Crimea)
E1-F1 16
Cimmerians (people)
F3 128
Gimarrai (Gomer) F3 110
Cirene see Cyrene
Citium (Larnaka) F4 128, 138, 173,
178
Claudiopolis (in Bithynia) F2 173
Claudiopolis (in Cilicia, Kirshu) F3
124
Cnidus E3 159, 172
Cnossos E3 66, 138, 178
Coa see Kue
Coele-Syria (region) G4 138
Colchi (people) H2 128
Colchis (region) H2 159
Colonia Amasa
(Emmaus/‘Imwas/Mozah/Nic
opolis/Qaloniyeh) W5 133, 146,
151, 183
Colophon E3 178
Colossae
D2 169
E3 159, 172
Comana Cappadociae (Cataoniae)
G3 173
Comana Pontica G2 159, 173
Commagene (Kummukhu, region)
G3 100, 110, 128, 138, 159,
173
Constantinople see Byzantium
Coptos (K. uft) F5 128
Corcyra see Corfu
Coreae (T. el-Mazar) X4 151
Corfu (Corcyra, island)
B3 16
C3 138
Corinth
C2 168
D3 124, 128, 138, 158, 172
Corsica (island) A2 158
Cos (island and city)
D2 169
E3 178
Cotiaeum E3 173
Cradle of Gold (Ophir) G6-H6 67,
100, 111
Crete (Caphtor/Keftiu)
C3-D3 16, 168-9
D3-E3 66, 110, 124, 128, 138, 158,
172, 178
Crimea (Cimmerian Chersonese)
E1-F1 16
Crocodilon Polis (T. el-Malat) W3
150
Crocodilopolis (Fayum/Medinet elFayum) F5 178
Croton C3 158
Ctesiphon H4 138, 159, 179
Curium F4 178
Cush see Ethiopia
Cuthah (T. Ibrahim) H4 67, 111,
125
Cyclades (islands) C3 16
Cydonia (Khania)
C3 16
D3 138
Cyprus
(Alashiya/Iadanana/Chittim/
Kittim)
D1 79
E2-E3 169
F3 16
F3-F4 66, 100, 110, 124, 128, 138,
159, 173, 178
Cyprus (T. el-‘Aqabeh, fortress) X5
146, 151
Cyrenaica (Put, region)
Index of Place Names
C3 169
c4 16
D4 66, 138, 158
Cyrene (Cirene) D4 128, 138, 158
Cyropolis (Kura/Uratube) N2 129,
139
Cyrus (river Kura) J2 129, 139
Cythera (island, Cerigo/Kithira)
C3 16
D3 178
Cyzicus E2 159, 172, 178
Dabaloth see Beth-diblathaim
Dabaritta/Daberath/Dabira/Dab
uriyeh (Khirbet Dabur) X3 150
Dacia (region) D1 158
Dahna (desert) K5-6 17
Dakhla Oasis E5 16
Dalmatia (Illyricum, region) C2 158
Damascus (esh-Sham)
E3 169
G3 16
G4 66, 100, 110, 124, 128, 138, 159,
173, 178
Z1 14, 30, 33, 72, 84, 105, 114, 146
Damascus Plain Z2 14
Damghan (Hecatompylus) K3 129,
139
Dan (Danos/Laish/Tell el-Qadi/[T.
Dan]) Y2 14, 30, 33, 72, 84, 92,
105, 114, 146, 182
Dan (tribe and land of )
W5 85
Y2 84
Danos see Dan
Danube (river)
B2-C2 16
C1-E2 158
Daphnae (in Egypt,
Tahpanhes/Tell Dafanneh) F4
110, 124, 128, 178
Daphne (Khirbet Dafneh) Y2 150
Dardanelles see Hellespont
Dascylium/Daskyleion E2-F2 128,
138
Dasht-e Kavir (desert) M3/4 17
Dasht-e Lut (desert) M4 17
Daskyleion/Dascylium E2-F2 128,
138
Dawalimeh (Bozkath) W5 114
Dead Sea (Arabah, Sea of/Bahr
Lut/Eastern Sea/Lake ˙
˙
Asphaltitis/Salt
Sea)
E2-3 79
G4 16
X5-6 14, 30, 33, 72, 85, 92, 105, 114,
133, 146, 151, 183
Y5-X6 20
Debbet er-Ramleh? (Wilderness of
Sin) D4 79
Debir (in Judah, Khirbet Rabud)
E2 79
W6/X6 14, 72, 85, 114, 183
Debir (Lo-debar/Umm el-Dabar) Y4
92, 105
Decapolis (region)
cities of see Abila; Damascus;
Dion; Gadara; Hippos; Pella;
Philadelphia (‘Amman);
Scythopolis
G4 173
Y3-4 150-1
Y3-5/Z3-5 146
Dedan (region) G5 100, 110
Dedan Oasis (el-‘Ula) G5 67, 100,
110, 125, 128
Deir el-Asal (Beth-ezel) W6 114
Deir el-‘Azhar see Baalah (Kiriathjearim)
Deir el-Azhar (Cariathiareim) W5
151
Deir el-Balah. (insert) 183
Deir el-Qilt X5 183
Deir el-Qurunt.ul X5 183
Deir Ghassaneh (Zeredah) X4 92, 105
Deir Mar Jiryis W5 183
Deir Tasa F5 178
Delos (island) E3 138, 178
Delphi
C2 168
D3 128, 138, 172, 178
Der (Bedrai) J4 125, 128
Der‘a (Bashan/Edrei) Z3 72, 84, 105
Derbe (Kerti Hüyük)
E2 169
F3 159, 173
Desert
Dasht-e Kavir M3/4 17
Dasht-e Lut M4 17
Eastern F4-5 16
Libyan D5-E6 16
Nubian F6 16
Rub‘ al-Khali K6-L6 17
Sahara C5-D5 158
see also Arabian Desert; Syrian
Desert; Western Desert
Dhahrat Humraiyeh W5 183
Dhat Ras (insert) 182
Dibon (Dhiban)
E2 79
Y5/Y6 14, 30, 33, 72, 85, 92, 105,
114, 183
Didyma E3 138, 172, 178
Dilmun (Bahrain) K5 67, 100
Dimnah (in
Zebulun/Rimmon/Rummaneh
/[H. orvat Rimona]) X3 84
Dinaric Alps A3 16
Dion/Djon (T. el‘Ash‘ari) Y3 150
Dipseh (Thapsacus/Tiphsah) G3
100, 110, 128, 138
Diyala (river) H4-J3 67, 111, 125
Diyarbakir (Amida) H3 100
Djon/Dion (T. el‘Ash‘ari) Y3 150
Doberus D2 172
Dodecanese (islands) D3 16
Dok (Jebel Quruntul) X5 133
˙ -Tantura)
Dor (Dora/el-Burj/et
F4 66, 100, 138 ˙ ˙ ˙
W3 14, 20, 72, 84, 92, 105, 114, 133,
146, 150, 182
Doriscus E2 128, 172
Dorylaeum F3 159, 173
Dothan (Tell Duthan) X4 30, 33, 72,
105, 114, 133, 182
Drangiana (region) L4-M4 129, 139
Drava (river) A2 16
Dumah (ed-Domeh)
G5 67, 100, 111, 128, 159
H4 16
Dur-sharrukin (Khorsabad) H3 111,
179
Dura (Adora/Adoraim/Aduru)
X5 105, 133, 146, 151
Y3 72
Dura-Europus H4 138, 159, 179
Dyrrhachium (Durazzo) C2 158,
172
Eastern Desert F4-5 16
Eastern Hills Y1-7 20
Eastern Sea see Persian Gulf
Ebal, Mount (Jebel Eslamiyeh) X4
92, 105, 133, 146, 151
Eben-ezer (‘Izbet S. artah) W4 1
˙
83
Ebla (Tell Mardikh) G3 67, 179
Ecbatana (Achmetha/Hamadan)
J4 67, 100, 111, 125, 129, 139, 179
L3 17
Ecdippa see Achzib (Ecdippa)
ed-Dahariyeh? (Goshen) W6 85
ed-Domeh (Dumah)
G5 67, 100, 111, 128, 159
H4 16
Eden (Beth-eden/Bit-adini, region)
G3 110-11
Eden (in Arabia, Aden) H8 100
Edessa (Urfa) G3 159
Edfu F6 128
Edom (region and kingdom)
E3 79
G4 100, 110, 124
X7-Y7 14, 20, 72, 85, 92, 105, 114
see also Idumea
Edomites G4-F4 128
Edrei (Bashan/Der‘a) Z3 72, 84, 105
Edremit (Adramyttium) E3 159, 172
Eglon (Tell el-H. esi/[T. H. esis˛]) W5
72, 85, 133, 183
Egnation Way D2-E2 159, 172
Egypt
B2-5 78
D4-E3 169
E4-F5 159
F4 173
F4-6 66, 100, 110, 124, 128, 138, 178
Lower E4-F4 16 F4 66
Upper E4-F5 16 F5-6 66
Egypt, Brook of (Wadi el-‘Arish)
D2-3 78-9
Einan Y2 182
Ekron (Accaron/Khirbet elMuqann‘/[T. Miqne]) W5 72,
85, 92, 105, 114, 133, 151
el-‘Abeidiyeh (Yanoam) Y2 72
el-‘Al (Elealeh) Y5 72, 114
el-‘Amr X3 84, 182
el-‘Araj (Bethsaida-Julias) Y3 146,
150
el-Arba‘in (Modein/Modin) X5 133,
151
el-Ashmunein (Hermopolis) F5 66,
110, 128, 138, 178
el-‘Azariyeh (Ananiah/Bethany) X5
146, 151
el-Basseh X2 182
el-Beqa‘ (The Plain) Y2 14
el-Bireh (Beer) X3 84
el-Blakhiyeh (Agrippias/Anthedon)
V5 133, 146, 151
el-Buqes˛a (Baca) X3 150, 182
el-Burj (Dor) see Dor
el-Burj (Burj el-Isaneh/Jeshanah)
X4 105
el-Ghazza see Gaza
el-Ghor see Arabah, The
el-Haditheh (Adida/Hadid/T.
H. adid) W5 133, 151
el-H
. ammeh (Emmatha/Hamathby-Gadara) Y3 150, 182
el-H
. auran see Hauran
el-‘Issawiyeh (Laishah) X5 114
209
el-Jib (Gabaon/Gibeon) X5 72, 85,
92, 133, 151, 183
el-Jish (Gischala) X2 150, 182
el-Jisr (Naarah)
W5 183
X5 85
el-Kab (Enkhab) F5 66
el-Khalil see Hebron
el-Malh.ah (Manahath/[Manahat])
˙
X5 183
el-Maqeiyar (Ur) J4 17, 67, 100, 111,
125, 128, 179
el-Menshiyeh (Ptolemais in Egypt)
F5 138
el-Meseliyyeh (Bemesilis) X4 150
el-Mina (Posidium) G3 100, 178
el-Mis. na‘ (Ar) Y6 72, 114
el-Mughara, Wadi W3 182
el-Murabba‘at, Wadi X5 151, 183
el-Qereiyat (Kerioth) Y5 114
el-Qubeibeh X5 183
el-Quds see Jerusalem
el-‘Ula Oasis (Dedan Oasis) G5 67,
100, 110, 125, 128
el-Wat.an (Hazar-shual) W6 85, 133
el-Yehudiyeh (Sogane in Gaulanitis)
Y3 150
Elah, Valley of (Wadi es-Sant) W5
˙
85
Elam (Elymais/Susiana, region) J4
67, 100, 111, 125, 129, 139
Elam (in Judah, Khirbet Beit ‘Alam)
W5 133
Elath (Eloth/Ezion-geber/Tell elKheleifeh)
E3 79
F5 100, 110, 178
see also insert on 182
el-Buqes˛a (Baca) X3 150, 182
el-Burj (Dor) see Dor
Elburz (Alborz) Mountains L3-M3
17
Elealeh (el-‘Al) Y5 72, 114
elenen-Bugei’a (Achor Valley) X5
84, 105
Elephantine (Yeb, island) F6 128
Eleusis D3 172
Elon X5 92
Eloth see Elath
Eltekeh T. esh-Shallaf/[T. Shalaf?])
W5 114, 183
Elymais see Elam (Elymais)
Emesa (H. oms.) G4 100, 138, 159, 173
Emmatha (el-H
. ammeh/Hamathby-Gadara) Y3 150, 182
Emmaus (Colonia
Amasa/‘Imwas/Mozah/Nicopo
lis/Qaloniyeh) W5 133, 146, 151,
183
en-dor (Khirbet S. afs.afeh/[H. orvat
Zafzafot]) X3 84
En-Eglaim (‘Ain Feshkha) X5 133,
183
en-gannim (Bethhaggan/Ginae/Jenin) X4 30,
72, 84, 105
En-gedi (Engaddi/[‘En Gedi]/T. ejJurn/[T. Goren]) X6 85, 105, 133,
146, 151, 183
En-gev (Aphek/Fiq in Transjordan)
Y3 105
en-Nas. ireh (Nazareth) X3 146, 150,
182
en-Na‘ura? (Anaharath) X3 72
Index of Place Names
en-Nibeira (Naucratis) F4 100, 159,
173
En-rimmon see Ain-rimmon
en-tappuah see tappuah
Endu J4 67
Engaddi see En-gedi
Enkhab (el-Kab) F5 66
Enkomi F3 100, 178
Ephah G5 100
Ephesus
D2 169
D3 16
E3 128, 138, 159, 172, 178
Ephraim
(Aphairema/Ephron/Ophrah/e
t-Taiyibeh) X5 85, 92, 105, 133, 151
˙
˙ (tribe and land of )
Ephraim
W4-X4 85
X4 114
Ephraim, Hill Country of
X4 33, 105
X4-5 20, 30
Ephron
(Aphairema/Ephraim/Ophrah
/et-Taiyibeh) X5 85, 92, 105, 133,
151˙ ˙
Ephron (in Transjordan) Y3 133
Epiphania (H. ama/Hamath) G3 67,
100, 110, 124-5, 128, 159, 173, 179
Epirus (region) D2-3 138, 172
Er Ram (insert) 182
er-Rafeh (Raphana/Raphon) Z3
146
er-Ram (Ramah) X5 84, 105, 114
Erbil see Arbela (in Assyria)
Erech (Uruk/Warka) J4 67, 111, 125,
128, 138, 179
Eridu (Abu Shahrein) J4 179
Erih.a (modern Jericho) Y5 183
Erwad (Aradus/Arvad/Ruwad) G4
66, 100, 110, 124, 128
Erythraean Sea L6-M6 129, 139
es-S. afi X6 72
es-Samu‘ (Eshtemoa) X6 85, 183
es-Sebbeh (Masada, fortress) X6
133, 146, 151, 183
es-Sela‘ (Sela)
E3 79
G4 100, 110, 128, 178
es. -S. ur see Tyre
Esbus see Heshbon
Esdraelon (Great Plain/Merj Ibn
‘Amir/Plain of Megiddo) X3
20, 114, 133, 146, 150
esh-Sham see Damascus
esh-Sheri‘ah el-Kebireh see Jordan
(river)
Eshnunna (Tell Asmar) H4 67, 100,
128, 179
Eshtemoa (es-Samu‘) X6 85, 183
Eskishisa (Laodicea in Anatolia)
D2 169
E3 159, 172
et.-T. aiyibeh see Caphartobas;
Ephraim (Aphairema)
et.-T. antura see Dor
et-Tell (Ai/Aialon/Aiath)
E2 79
X5 72, 85, 105, 114, 151, 183
et-Tuleil (Thella) Y2 150
Etam (Khirbet el-Khokh) X5 85, 151
Ethiopia (Cush, region)
F6 16
F6-7 66, 100, 110, 124, 128
Etna, Mount B4 16
Euboea (Evvoia, island) D3 172, 178
Euphrates (river, Shatt el-Furat)
F2 169
G2 79
G2-K4 16
G3-J4 67, 100, 110-11, 125, 128, 138,
159, 179
Europus (Dura-Europos) H4 138,
159, 179
Europus (in Syria,
Carchemish/Jerablus) G3 67,
100, 110, 125, 128, 138, 159, 179
Euxine Sea see Black Sea
Evvoia (Euboea, island) D3 172, 178
Exaloth (Chislothtabor/Chesulloth/Iksal) X3 150
Exodus route C3-E3 78-9
ez-Zeife (Ziph in Hill Country of
Judah) X6 85, 105, 114
ez-Zib see Achzib (Ecdippa)
Ezion-geber see Elath
Fahraj (Pura) M5 129, 139
Fair Havens (Limenes Kali) D4 158,
172
Famiya/Famiyeh (Apamea in
Syria/Qal‘at Mud. iq) G3 159,
173
Far‘a (Shuruppak) J4 179
Farafra Oasis E5 16
Farah (river) X4 151
Far‘ata (Pharathon/Pirathon) X4
85, 92, 105, 133, 151
Fars see Persia
Fayum (Crocodilopolis/Medinet elFayum) F5 178
Feifa X7 72
Feinan (Punon) E3 79
Fertile Crescent G3-K4 16-17
Filibedjik (Philippi)
D1 168
D2 138, 172, 178
Fiq (Aphek/En-gev in Transjordan)
Y3 105
Florentia (Florence/Firenze) B2
158
Forum of Appius (Appii Forum)
B2 158
Fost.at. (Babylon in Egypt) F5 159
Gabae (Isfahan) K4 129, 139
Gabaon (Gibeon/el-Jib) X5 72, 85,
92, 133, 151, 183
Gabata (Jaba) W3 150
Gabath Saul X5 151
Gad (tribe and land of ) Y4-5 84,
105
Gadara (in Perea, Tell Jadyr) Y4 133,
146, 151
Gadara (Muqeis/Umm Qeis)
G4 173
Y3 133, 146, 150, 182
Galatia (region and Roman
province)
E2 169
F3 138, 159
F3-G2 173
Galatian Phrygia F3 173
Galatian Pontus (region) G2/3 173
Galilee (region)
Lower X3 20, 30, 33
Upper X2-3 20, 30, 33, 105, 114
X2/3-Y2/3 146
210
Galilee, Sea of
(Chinnereth/Chinneroth/Bahr
˙
Tabariyeh)
E2 ˙79
Y3 20, 30, 33, 72, 84, 92, 105, 114,
133, 146, 150, 182
Galilee and Perea (region) X2-Y5 150
Gallim (Khirbet Ka‘kul) X5 114
Gamala (Ras el-H. al) Y3 133, 146, 150
Gamma? see Yurza
Gandhara (region) N3-4 129, 139
Gangra F2 159, 173
Garis (Khirbet Kenna) X3 150
Gath (Gittaim/T. Ras Abu H. umeid)
W5 92, 105, 133
Gath (Tell es.-S. afi/Tell Zafit) W5 72,
85, 105, 114, 183
Gath of Sharon (Gath-pedalla) X4
72
Gath-hepher (Khirbet ez-Zurra‘/[T.
Gat H. efer]) X3 105
Gath-pedalla (Gath of Sharon) X4
72
Gath-rimmon (Tell el-Jerisheh/[T.
Gerisa?]) W4 85, 92, 183
Gaudos (island, Cauda/Gavdos)
D4 158, 172
Gaugamela H3 138
Gaulanitis (Jaulan, region) Y2-3
146, 150
Gavdos (island, Cauda/Gaudos)
D4 158, 172
Gaza (el-Ghazza)
D2 79
F4 66, 100, 110, 124, 128, 138, 159,
173
V5 30, 92, 105, 114, 133, 146
V6 72, 84, 151
see also insert
Gazara see Gezer
Geba (Jeba‘) X5 92, 105, 114, 133
Gebal see Byblos
Gediz (river Hermus) E3 110, 124,
172
Gedrosia (Maka, region) M5 129, 139
Gemmaruris (Khirbet Jemrura) W5
151
Gennesaret see Chinnereth
Gennesaret, Lake of see Galilee,
Sea of
Genua (Genoa/Genova) A2 158
Geoy Tepe J3 179
Gerar (T. Abu Hureira/[T. Haror])
D2 79
W6 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133
Gerasa (Antioch on
Chrysorhoas/Gergesa/Jerash)
G4 173, 178
Y4 133, 138, 146, 150, 182
Gergesa see Gerasa
Gerizim, Mount (Jebel et-Tor) X4
˙ ˙ 151
72, 84, 92, 105, 133, 146,
Germanicea (Marash/Markasi) G3
100, 173, 179
Gesher Benoth Ya‘ak. ov (Jisr Banat
Ya‘aqub) Y2 182
Geshur (region of Transjordan)
Y2-3 72
Y3-Z3 92
Gezer (Gazara/T. Jezer/Tell Abu
Shusheh/[T. Gezer])
E2 79
F4 178
W5 72, 85, 92, 114, 133, 146, 151, 183
Ghazni (Alexandria Arachôsiôn)
N4 129, 139
Ghazza see Gaza
Gibbethon (T. el-Melat/[T. Malot])
W5 85, 105, 114
Gibeah (Tell el-Ful) X5 85, 92, 105,
114, 183
Gibeon (Gabaon/el-Jib) X5 72, 85,
92, 133, 151, 183
Gigen (Oescus) D2 158
Gilboa, Mount (Jebel Fuqu‘ah) X4
84, 92
Gilead (region)
G4 100
Y3-4 92, 133
Y3-5 30, 105, 114
Y4 33, 85
Y4-5 20
Gilgal (near Jericho, BethGilgal/Khirbet elMafjar/Mefjir), X5 72, 85, 92,
105, 114, 133, 183
Gilgal (T. el-‘Amr/Harosheth-hagoiim) X3 84, 182
Giloh (Khirbet Jala) X5 85, 92
Gimarrai (Gomer, people) F3 110
Gimzo (Jimzu) W5 105, 114
Ginae (Beth-haggan/engannim/Jenin) X4 30, 72, 84, 105
Ginnesar see Chinnereth
Girgenti (Agrigentum/Agrigento)
B3 158
Gischala (el-Jish) X2 150, 182
Gitta X4 150
Gittaim (Gath/T. Ras Abu H. umeid)
W5 92, 105, 133
Gizeh
F4 178
F5 66
Golan (Sahem el-Jolan) Y3 72, 84
˙
Gomer (Gimarrai,
people) F3 110
Gomorrah (possible location of )
Y6 72
Gophna (Ophni/Jiphna) X5 133, 146,
151
Gordion/Gordium F3 110, 128, 138,
159, 173, 178
Gordyene H3 159
Gorgan (Astrabad) K3 129, 139
Gortyna (in Crete) D3 128, 138
Goshen (ed-Dahariyeh?) W6 85
Gozan (T. H. alaf) G3 67, 100, 111, 179
Granicus (river) E2-3 128, 138
Great Arad (T. el-Milh/T. Malhata)
X6 72, 84, 85, 92, 105, 114,˙183
Great Bitter Lake C3 78
Great Plain (Plain of
Megiddo/Esdraelon/Merj Ibn
‘Amir) X3 20, 114, 133, 146, 150
Great Sea see Mediterranean Sea
Great Zab (river Zab el-‘A‘la) H3 67,
111, 125, 179
Greece
B3-C3 16
D3 128, 178
E3 124
Gulashkird (Alexandria in
Carmania) L5 129, 139
Gurbaal ( Jagur/Tell Ghurr) W6 105
Gurgan see Hyrcania (region)
Gurgum (region) G3 100
Gürün (Til-garimmu/Togarmah)
G3 110
Gutium (region) J3-4 67
Index of Place Names
H
. alab/H. aleb see Aleppo
Ha-yonim X3 182
Habesor (Besor Brook/Wadi
Ghazzeh) V6-W6 85, 92, 105,
114, 151
Habor (river Khabur)
G3-H3 100
H3 67, 111, 125
Habu
(Karnak/Luxor/Medinet/No/
Thebes in Egypt) F5 16, 66,
100, 110, 124, 128, 138
Hadera (Khud. eirah) W4 182
Hadid (Adida/el-Haditheh/[T.
H. adid]) W5 133, 151
Hagia Triada (Ayia Triada) D3 178
H
. albun (Helbon) G4 110
Halhul/H
. alh.ul (Alulos) X5 151
Halicarnassus E3 138, 172, 178
Halys (river Kizilirmak) F2-G3 66,
110, 124, 128, 138, 159, 173, 178
Ham Y3 72, 114
H
. ama see Hamath
Hamadan (Achmetha) see Ecbatana
Hamath (Epiphania/H. ama) G3 67,
100, 110, 124-5, 128, 159, 173, 179
Hamath-by-Gadara (elH
. ammeh/Emmatha) Y3 150,
182
H
. ammam T. abariyeh see
Hammath
H
. ammam T. everiya see Hammath
Hammath (Ammathus/H. ammam
Tabariyeh/[H. ame Teveriya]) Y3
˙ 150
˙
84,
Hannathon (Tell el-Bedeiwiyeh/[T.
H. annaton]) X3 72, 84, 105
Haran (Carrhae/H. arran) G3 67,
100, 110, 125, 128, 159, 179
Harim (Khirbet Horan) W5 133
Harmozeia L5 139
Harosheth-ha-goiim (Gilgal/T. el‘Amr) X3 84, 182
H
. arran see Haran
Hassuna H3 179
Hatra H3 179
Hatti see Hittite Empire
Hattina (region) G3 110
Hattusa (Bo,azköy/Pteria) F2 66,
128, 138, 178
Hauran (el-H. auran) (region)
G4 110
Z3 105, 114
Havvoth-jair (region) Y3 72, 84, 92,
105
Ha-yonim X3 182
Hazar-addar (Khirbet el-Qudeirat?)
D3 79
Hazarmaveth (region) J7-8 100
Hazar-shual (el-Watan) W6 85, 133
˙
Hazazon-tamar (‘Ain
H. us.b/[H. azeva]/Tamar,
fortress)
E3 79
X7 72, 92, 105
H
. azeva see Hazazon-tamar
Hazor (Tell el-Qedah/Tell
Waqqas./[T. H. azor])
G4 66, 100, 178
Y2 14, 72, 84, 92, 105, 114
Hazorea‘ (Tell Qiri) X3 182
Hebron (Kiriath-arba/el-Khalil)
E2 79
G4 66
X5 30, 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133, 146,
151
Hecatompylus (Damghan) K3 129,
139
Helam (Alema/‘Alma) Z3 92
Helbon (H. albun) G4 110
Heliopolis (in Egypt, Bethshemesh/On/Tell H. us.n)
B3 78
F4 66, 100, 110, 124, 128, 138, 159,
178
Heliopolis (in Syria, Ba‘albek) G4
173, 178
Helkath (Hukok/Tell Harbaj/T. elQassis/[T. Qashish?]) X3 182
Hellespont (Dardanelles/Abydos)
C2-3 16
E2 172
E2-3 128
Hepher (T. Ifshar/[T. H. efer?]) W4
84, 92, 182
Heptapegon (‘Ain Tabgha) Y3 182
˙ 173
Heraclea F2 138, 159,
Heracleon E3 172
Heracleopolis (Ahnes el-Medineh)
D4 78
F5 66
Herat (Alexandria
Ariôn/Artacoana) M4 139
Heri Rud (river Areius) M3-N3 139
Hermon, Mount
(Senir/Sirion/Jebel esh-Sheikh)
Y2 72, 92, 114
Y2-Z2 14, 30, 84, 105
Hermopolis (el-Ashmunein) F5 66,
110, 128, 138, 178
Hermus (river Gediz) E3 110, 124,
172
Herod Agrippa II, Kingdom of G4
173
Herod Antipas, Tetrarchy of
(region) X3-Y4 150-1
Herodian Palestine (region) 146
Herodium (Jebel Fureidis, fortress)
X5 146, 151, 183
H
. esban see Heshbon
Heshbon (Esbus/H. esban)
E2 79
Y5 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133, 151, 183
Hiddekel (river Tigris)
H2-K4 16-17
H3-J4 67, 100, 111, 125, 128, 138,
159, 179
Hierakonopolis (Kom el-Ahmar)
˙
F5/6 178
Hierapolis
D2 169
E3 172
Hindush (region of India) N5 129,
139
Hippeum ([Beit She‘arim]/Beth
She‘arim/Sheikh Abreiq) X3
146, 150, 182
Hippos (Susithah/Qal‘at el-H. us.n)
Y3 133, 146, 150, 182
Hisarlik (Ilium/Troy)
D2 169
E3 66, 138, 178
Hittite Empire (Hatti)
F3-G3 66
F4-G4 124
Hittites (people) F3-G3 100
H
. oms. (Emesa) G4 100, 138, 159, 173
Horeb, Mount see Sinai, Mount
Hormah (Khirbet el-Meshash/[T.
Masos])
E2 79
W6 72, 85, 133, 183
Hormuz, Strait of N5-6 17
H
. orvat ‘Adullam (Adullam/T. eshSheikh Madhkur) X5 72, 85, 92,
105, 114, 133
H
. orvat ‘Aro‘er (in Negeb,
Adadah/‘Ar‘arah/Aroer) W6
72, 85
H
. orvat Bene-beraq (Beneberak/Ibn beraq) W4 114, 183
H
. orvat Bodeda (insert) 182
H
. orvat Borin (Borim/Khirbet
Burin) X4 105
H
. orvat Lavnin?
(Achzib/Chezib/Khirbet Tel elBeid) W5 72, 114
H
. orvat Nevallat (Beit
Nabala/Neballat) W5 133
H
. orvat Qarne H. it.t.im
(Madon/Qarn H. attin) X3 72, 84
˙˙
H
. orvat Rimona (in Zebulun,
Dimnah/Rimmon/Rummaneh)
X3 84
H
. orvat Ruma (Khirbet
Rumeh/Rumah) X3 105, 114, 150
H
. orvat Sokho (Shephelah of
Judah, Khirbet ‘Abbad/Socoh)
W5 72, 85, 105, 114
H
. orvat Yatir ( Jattir/Khirbet ‘Attir)
X6 85
H
. orvat Yittan? (Khereibet elWaten/Moladah) W6 72, 133
˙
H
. orvat Yodefat
( Jotapata/Jotbah/Khirbet Jefat)
X3 114, 150
H
. orvat Zafzafot (en-dor/Khirbet
S. afs.afeh) X3 84
H
. orvat Zanoah (Khirbet
Zanu‘/Zanoah) W5/X5 133
Hukok see Helkath
H
. uleh (Semechonitis), Lake Y2 150
Hurrians (people) G3-H3 100
Hyderabad (Pattala) N5 129, 139
Hyrcania (Gurgan, region) K3-L3
129, 139
Hyrcania (Khirbet Mird, fortress) X5
146, 151, 183
Hyrcanian Sea see Caspian Sea
Iadanana see Cyprus
Ialysus E3 178
Iamnitarum Portus ( Jamnia harbour/Minet Rubin) W5 151
Ibleam (Bilean/T. Bel‘ameh) X4 72,
84, 105, 114
Ibn beraq (Bene-berak/H. orvat Beneberaq) W4 114, 183
Iconium (Qoniyah)
E2 169
F3 100, 159, 173
Ida, Mount
C2 16
E3 128
Idalion, F3 178
Idumea (region)
W6-X6 133, 146, 151
see also Edom
Ijon (Iyyon) Y2 72, 105
Iksal (Chesulloth/Chislothtabor/Exaloth) X3 150
Ilium (Troy/Hisarlik)
211
D2 169
E3 66, 138, 178
Illyricum (Dalmatia, Roman
province) C2 158
Ilon (Beit Illo) X5 151
Imbros (Imros, island) E2 172, 178
‘Imwas (Colonia
Amasa/Emmaus/Nicopolis/M
ozah/Qaloniyeh) W5 133, 146,
151, 183
India see Hindush
Indus (river) N5-6 129, 139
Inek-bazar (Magnesia) E3 124, 128,
138, 172, 178
Ionia (region) E3 124, 128, 138,
172
Ionian Sea
B2 168
B3 16
Ipsus F3 138
Iran see Persia; Persian Empire
Iraq ez-Zigan [Neve Sha‘anan] X3
182
Irbid (Arbela in Transjordan/Betharbel) Y3 105, 133, 150
Iron (Yarun/Yiron) X2 84, 105, 182
Irq el-Ah.mar (Umm Qatafa) X5 183
˙
Isbeit.a ([Shivta]/Subeita)
F4 178
see also insert on 182
Isdud (Ashdod/Azotus/[T. Ashdod])
D2 79
F4 128, 138, 151
W5 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133, 146
Isfahan (Gabae) K4 129, 139
‘Isfiyyeh X3 182
Ishan Bahriyat (Isin) J4 67
Isin (Ishan Bahriyat) J4 67
Iskandariyeh (Alexandria in Egypt)
D3 169
E4 128, 138, 159, 173, 178
Isnik (Nicaea) E2 138, 159, 173
Israel (region and kingdom)
G4 100, 110
W4-Y4 92
X2-5 114
Hill Country of X4 72, 84
Issachar (tribe and land of )
X3 84
X3-Y3 105, 114
Issus G3 128, 138, 173
Istanbul see Byzantium
Istria A3 16
Istros E2 159
Italy
A1-B2 168
A3-B3 16
B2 158
Ituraea ( Jetur, region) Y1-2 146
Iyyon (Ijon) Y2 72, 105
Izalla (region of Mesopotamia) H3
125
‘Izbet S. art.ah (Eben-ezer) W4 183
Izmir (Smyrna)
D2 169
E3 100, 159, 172, 178
Izmit (Nicomedia) E2 159, 173
Jaba (Gabata) W3 150
Jabbok (river Nahr ez-Zerqa)
Y4 72, 92, 105, 114, 133, 151, 183
Y4-Z4 146
Jabesh-gilead (Tell el-Maqlub) Y4
84, 92, 114
Index of Place Names
Jabneel (in Judah,
Jabneh/Jamnia/Yebna Yavne)
W5 85, 105, 114, 133, 146, 151
Jabneel (in Naphtali, Tell enNa‘am/[T. Yin‘am]) X3 182
Jabneh see Jabneel (in Judah)
Jaffa see Joppa
Jagur (Gurbaal/Tell Ghurr) W6 105
Jahaz (Khirbet el-Medeiyineh?) Y5
105, 114
Jair (towns of ) see Havvoth-jair
Jalo Oasis C5 16
Jamneith (Khirbet Benit) Y3 150
Jamnia see Jabneel (in Judah)
Jamnia Harbour (Iamnitarum
Portus/Minet Rubin) W5 151
Janoah (Yanuh) X3 72
˙
Japh(i)a (Yafa/Yafo)
X3 72, 150, 182
Jarmu H3 179
Jarmuth (Khirbet Yarmuk/[T.
Yarmut]) W5 85, 133
Jattir (Khirbet ‘Attir/[H. orvat Yatir])
X6 85
Jaulan (Gaulanitis, region) Y2-3
146, 150
Javan E3 110
Jaxartes (river Syr Darya) O2-4 17
Jazer (Khirbet Jazzir) Y4 72, 92, 114,
133
Jeba‘ (Geba) X5 92, 105, 114, 133
Jebeil (Byblos/Gebal)
F3 16
G4 66, 100, 110, 124, 128, 138, 178
Jebel en-Nebu see Nebo, Mount
Jebel esh-Sheikh see Hermon,
Mount
Jebel Eslamiyeh (Mount Ebal) X4
92, 105, 133, 146, 151
Jebel et.-Tor (Mount Gerizim) X4
72, 84, 92, 105, 133, 146, 151
Jebel et.-Tor (Mount Tabor) X3 84,
105, 182
Jebel Fuqu‘ah (Mount Gilboa) X4
84, 92
Jebel Fureidis (Herodium, fortress)
X5 146, 151, 183
Jebel Helal? see Sinai, Mount
Jebel Mar Elyas (Mount Carmel)
W3-X3 30, 33, 72, 84, 92, 105,
114, 133, 146, 150
Jebel Musa? see Sinai, Mount
Jebel Qurunt.ul (Dok) X5 133
Jebel Shifa (mountain) G4 16
Jebel T. uwaiq (mountain) J5-6 17
Jebus see Jerusalem
Jekabzeel (Kabzeel/Khirbet H. ora?)
W6 85, 92, 133
Jenin (Beth-haggan/engannim/Ginae) X4 30, 72, 84,
105
Jerablus (Carchemish/Jerablus in
Syria) G3 67, 100, 110, 125, 128,
138, 159, 179
Jerash (Antioch on
Chrysorhoas/Gerasa/Gergesa)
G4 173, 178
Y4 133, 138, 146, 150, 182
Jericho, ancient (Tell es-Sultan)
˙
E2 79
G4 66, 173, 178
X5 30, 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133, 146,
151, 183
Y5 183
Jericho, modern (Eriha) Y5 183
˙
Jerusalem (el-Quds/Jebus)
E2 79
E3 169
F4 16
G4 66, 100, 124, 128, 138, 159, 173,
178
X5 30, 33, 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133,
146, 183
Jeshanah (Burj el-Isaneh/el-Burj) X4
105
Jeshua (T. es-Sa‘wa/[T. Jeshu‘a]) W6
133
Jetur (Ituraea, region) Y1-2 146
Jeyhan (river Ceyhan/Pyramos) G3
173, 179
Jezreel (in Israel, Zer‘in/[T. Yizre‘el])
X3 84, 92, 105
Jezreel (in Judah, Khirbet Terrama?)
X6 85
Jezreel, Valley of (Nahr Jalud) X3
84, 92, 105, 150
Jimzu (Gimzo) W5 105, 114
Jiphna (Gophna/Ophni) X5 133,
146, 151
Jisr Banat Ya‘aqub [Gesher Benoth
Ya‘ak. ov] Y2 182
Jogbehah (Jubeihat) Y4 72, 85
Jokneam/Jokmeam/Jokmean (Tell
Qeimun/[T. Yoqneam]) X3 72,
84, 92, 105
Joktan (region of Arabia) H6 100
Joppa ( Jaffa/Yafa/[Yafo])
F3 16
F4 66, 100, 159, 173
W4 30, 33, 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133,
146, 151, 183
Jordan (river esh-Sheri‘ah el-Kebireh)
G3 16
G4 173
J3-4 182
Y2-5 30, 33, 72, 92, 105, 114, 133, 146,
150-1, 183
Y3 84
Jotapata ( Jotbah/Khirbet
Jefat/[H. orvat Yodefat]) X3 114,
150
Jotbah see Jotapata
Jubeihat ( Jogbehah) Y4 72, 85
Judah (region and kingdom) 133
F4 100, 110, 114, 124
F4-G4 128
W6-X5 85, 92, 105, 114
see also Shephelah)
Judah, Hill Country of
X5 20, 33, 72, 85
X5-6 30
Judah, Wilderness of
F4-G4 159
X5-6 30, 33, 92, 105, 146
Judea (region of Judah)
F4-G4 173
W2-X5 150-1
W5-X5 133, 146
Judea, Wilderness of X5 151
Julias (Betharamphtha/Livias/T. erRameh) Y5 146, 151
Juttah (Yatta) E2 79
˙˙
Kabri X2 182
Kabul (Cabul/Chabulon) X3 84, 92,
150, 182
Kabul (Ortospana) N3 139
Kabzeel ( Jekabzeel/Khirbet H. ora?)
W6 85, 92, 133
212
Kadesh (in Negeb) see Kadeshbarnea
Kadesh (Tell Nebi Mend)
F4 124
G4 67, 110
Kadesh-barnea (‘Ain Qedeis/Khirbet
el- Qudeirat?/Meribah)
D3 79
F4 66
Kadiköy (Calchedon/Chalcedon)
E2 138, 173
Kafr Bir‘im X2 182
Kain (Kenite lands/Kenites) F4-G4
100
Kalkhu (Calah/Nimrud) H3 67, 100,
111, 125, 179
Kamon (Qamm?) Y3 84
Kanah (Qanah) X2 72
Kanah, Brook of (Wadi Qanah)
W4 151
Kandahar (Alexandropolis) N4 129,
139
Kanish (Kültepe) G3 66, 100, 178
Kappadokia see Cappadocia
Kappadokia (Katpukuka) see
Cappadocia
Kara Kum N3 17
Kara-Bogaz-Gol N2-3 17
Karatepe G3 178
Karkor (Qarkar)
G4 67
Z6 85
Karnaim (Carnain/Carnion/Sheikh
Sa‘d) Z3 72, 105, 114
Karnak (Habu/Luxor/Medinet/No/
Thebes in Egypt) F5 16, 66,
100, 110, 124, 128, 138
Kassites (people) J4 100
Katpatuka (Kappadokia) see
Cappadocia
Kaukab el-Hawa (Agrippina) Y3 150
Kavala (Neapolis in Macedonia) D2
168, 172
Kaymakil E2 169
Kayseri (Caesarea in
Cappadocia/Mazaca) G3 159,
173, 178
Kebera (Mugharet el-Kebara) W3
182
Kechries (Cenchrea(e))
C2 168
D3 158, 172
Kedar (people and region)
G4 67
G4-G5 100
G4-H4 110-11, 125, 128
Kedemoth (‘Aleiyan) Y5 72, 85
Kedesh (in Judah) see Kadeshbarnea
Kedesh (in Naphtali, Tell Qades/[T.
Qedesh]) Y2 14, 72, 84, 105, 114,
182
Kedron (Cedron/Qatra) W5 133, 151
˙
Kedron (river Belus/Nahr
Rubin)
W5 151
Kefallinia (island, Cephalonia) B3
16
Kefar Nah.um (Capernaum/T.
H. um/[Kefar Nahum]) Y3 146,
˙
150, 182
Kefar Turban? (Caphartobas/et˙
Taiyibeh/Tob)
X5 ˙151
Z3 84, 92
Kefr ‘Ana (Ono) W4 72, 114, 133
Kefr Thilth (Baal-shalisha(h)) X4
85, 105
Keftiu see Crete
Keilah (Khirbet Qila) W5 72, 85, 114,
133
Kenites (tribe) F4-G4 100
Kerioth (el-Qereiyat) Y5 114
Kerman L4 129
Kermel (Carmel in Judah) X6 14,
92, 105
Kerti Hüyük (Derbe)
E2 169
F3 159, 173
Khabur (river) see Habor
Khafajeh H4 179
Khaibar (in Arabia) G5 100
Khan el-Ah.mar X5 183
Khanazir X7 72
Khania (Canea/Cydonia)
C3 16
D3 138
Kharga Oasis E5 16
Khazazu (‘Azaz) G3 124-5
Khereibet el-Wat.en ([H. orvat
Yittan?]/Moladah) W6 72, 133
Khilakku see Cilicia
Khindanu (region) H4 125
Khirbet ‘Abbad (Shephelah of
Judah, [H. orvat Sokho]/Socoh)
W5 72, 85, 105, 114
Khirbet ‘Abdeh (Abdon/[T. ‘Avdon])
X2 84
Khirbet Abu esh-Sheba‘ (Bersabe
in Galilee) X3 150
Khirbet Abu Tabaq? (Middin) X5
85, 105, 183
Khirbet ‘Addasa (Adasa) X5 151
Khirbet ‘Anab es. -S. eghireh (Anab)
W6 85
Khirbet ‘Asan (Ashan) W6 85
Khirbet Asideh X5 183
Khirbet ‘At.t.arus (Ataroth) Y5 72,
105, 114
Khirbet ‘Attir ( Jattir/[H. orvat Yatir])
X6 85
Khirbet ‘Auja et-Tah.ta (Archelais in
Judea) X5 146, 151
Khirbet ‘Ayun Musa (Baalpeor/Beth-peor) Y5 85, 105
Khirbet Bat.neh (Betonim) Y5 85
Khirbet Bedd Faluh. (Netophah) X5
92, 114, 133
Khirbet Beidus (Narbata) X4 133,
150
Khirbet Beit ‘Alam (Elam in Judah)
W5 133
Khirbet Beit Zekaria (Beth-zechariah) X5 133, 151
Khirbet Benit ( Jamneith) Y3 150
Khirbet Berqit (Anathu Borcaeus)
X4 151
Khirbet Beter W6 183
Khirbet Bir el-Beidar (Besara) X3
150
Khirbet Burin (Borim/[H. orvat
Borin]) X4 105
Khirbet Dabur
(Dabaritta/Daberath/Dabira/
Daburiyeh) X3 150
Khirbet Dafneh (Daphne) Y2
150
Khirbet Dajun ([Bet Dagan]/Bethdagon) W5 72, 85, 114
Index of Place Names
Khirbet Deleitat esh-Sherqiyeh?
(Almon-Diblathaim/Bethdibathaim/Dabaloth?) Y5 105,
114, 133
Khirbet Dimneh? (Madmen) Y6 114
Khirbet el- ej-Jumeil (Beth-gamul)
Y6 114
Khirbet el-‘Asheq (Aphek/En-gev)
Y3 182
Khirbet el-Bis (Capharabis) W5 151
Khirbet el-Harbaj (Achshaph) X3
72, 84
Khirbet el-Hubeileh X5 183
Khirbet el-Kerak (BethYerah/Philoteria/T. Bet Yerah])
˙ 133, 150, 182
˙
Y3 72,
Khirbet el-Khokh (Etam) X5 85, 151
Khirbet el-Lon (Asochis/Shihin)
X3 133
Khirbet el-Mafjar (BethGilgal/Gilgal/Mefjir) X5 72,
85, 92, 105, 114, 133, 183
Khirbet el-Mahalib
(Ahlab/Mahalab) X2 84, 114
Khirbet el-Mans. urah (Lakkum) Y3
84
Khirbet el-Maqari? (Nibshan) X5
85, 105, 183
Khirbet el-Medeiyineh (Mattanah)
Y5 72
Khirbet el-Medeiyineh? ( Jahaz) Y5
105, 114
Khirbet el-Mekhaiyet. (Nebo in
Moab) Y5 105, 114, 183
Khirbet el-Meshash see Hormah
Khirbet el-Minya Y3 182
Khirbet el-Mird (Hyrcania,
fortress) X5 146, 151, 183
Khirbet el-Mukheizin? (Makaz)
W5 92
Khirbet el-Muqann‘
(Accaron/Ekron/[T. Miqne])
W5 72, 85, 92, 105, 114, 133, 151
Khirbet el-Musheirefeh
(Misrephoth-maim) X2 84
Khirbet el-‘Ormeh see Arumah
Khirbet el-Qudeirat? (Hazar-addar)
D3 79
Khirbet el-Qureiyeh (Kiriathaim)
Y5 72, 85, 105, 114
Khirbet en-Nabratein Y3 182
Khirbet er-Rabba
(Areopolis/Rabbathmoab) Y6
151
Khirbet er-Ras (Bethuel/Bethul)
W6 85
Khirbet es-Samrah? (Secacah) X5
85, 105
Khirbet es-Siyar X5 183
Khirbet et-Tannur G4 178
Khirbet et-Tuleil X3 182
Khirbet ez-Zurra‘ (Gath-hepher)
X3 105
Khirbet Fah.il see Pella
Khirbet Fas. a‘yil (Phasaelis) X4 146,
151
Khirbet H
. ora? ( Jekabzeel/Kabzeel)
W6 85, 92, 133
Khirbet Horan (Harim) W5 133
Khirbet Ibziq (Bezek) X4 84
Khirbet Irbid (Arbela in Galilee)
X3 133, 182
Khirbet Irha? (Capharsalama) X5 151
Khirbet Iskander Y5 183
Khirbet Istabul (Aristobulias) X6
151
Khirbet Jala (Giloh) X5 85, 92
Khirbet Jazzir ( Jazer) Y4 72, 92,
114, 133
Khirbet Jefat
( Jotapata/Jotbah/[H. orvat
Yodefat]) X3 114, 150
Khirbet Jemrura (Gemmaruris)
W5 151
Khirbet Kafr Sib (Yishub) X4 150
Khirbet Ka‘kul (Gallim) X5 114
Khirbet Kenna (Garis) X3 150
Khirbet Kerazeh (Chorazin) Y3
146, 150, 182
H3 111, 179
Khirbet Khorsa (Caparorsa) X6 151
Khirbet Khuweilfeh (‘Ain/Ain-rimmon/En- rimmon/[Tel
Halif]/Timmon) W6 133, 183
Khirbet Kufr H
. atta (Capparetaea)
W4 151
Khirbet Libb (Libba) Y5 133
Khirbet Mah.na el-Foqa
(Mahnayim) X4 151
Khirbet Mukawer (Machaerus,
fortress) Y5 133, 146, 151
Khirbet Qana (Cana) X3 150
Khirbet Qarqur (Qarqar) G4 110
Khirbet Qasyun (Kishion/[T.
Qishyon]) X3 182
Khirbet Qila (Keilah) W5 72, 85,
114, 133
Khirbet Qumran see Qumran; Salt,
City of
Khirbet Rabud see Debir (in Judah)
Khirbet Rumeh ([H. orvat
Ruma]/Rumah) X3 105, 114, 150
Khirbet Rushmiya (Rosh Maya)
W3 182
Khirbet S. afs. afeh (en-dor/[H. orvat
Zafzafot]) X3 84
Khirbet S. alah. (Zela) X5 85
Khirbet S. alih. (Bethhaccherem/[Ramat Rahel]) X5
˙
114, 133, 183
Khirbet Sammuniyeh (Shimron/[T.
Shimron]) X3 72, 84
Khirbet Seilame (Selame) X3 150
Khirbet Shema‘ X3 182
Khirbet Tannur (insert) 182
Khirbet Tatrit (Madmannah) W6
85, 114
Khirbet Tel el-Beid.
(Achzib/Chezib/[H. orvat
Lavnin?]) W5 72, 114
Khirbet Terrama? ( Jezreel in
Judah) X6 85
Khirbet Tibneh see Timnath
Khirbet T. ubeiqa (Bethsura/Bethzur/[Beit S. ur]) X5 85, 105, 133,
151, 183
Khirbet Umm el‘Umdan (Aenon)
Y4 150
Khirbet Yarmuk ( Jarmuth in
Judah/[T. Yarmut]) W5 85, 133
Khirbet Yemma (Yehem/[T.
Yaham]) X4 72 ˙
Khirbet˙ Zanu‘ ([H. orvat
Zanoah]/Zanoah) W5/X5 133
Khirbet Zeiy (Zia) Y4 151
Khirokhitia F4 178
Khisfin (Casphor/Caspin/
Chasphor) Y3 133
Khorasan (region) M4-N4 17
Khorsabad (Dur-sharrukin) H3 111,
179
Khud. eirah (Hadera) W4 182
Khume see Kue
Khuzestan (region) K4-L4 17
Khwarizm (Chorasmia, region)
L2-M2 139
Kidron, Brook (Wadi Sitti Maryam)
X5 105, 151
King’s Highway (Tariq es-Sultani)
˙
Z1-Y7 14
Kir-hareseth (Kir/Kir-heres/elKerak)
E2/3 79
Y6 14, 92, 105, 114, 183
Kiriath-arba see Hebron
Kiriath-jearim (Baalah/Deir el‘Azhar/[T. Qiryat Ye‘arim]) X5
85, 92, 114, 133
Kiriathaim (Khirbet el-Qureiyeh) Y5
72, 85, 105, 114
Kirkuk (Arrapkha) H3 100, 111, 125,
128
Kirshu (Claudiopolis in Cilicia) F3
124
Kish (T. el-Oheimer) H4 67, 125, 179
˙ Qasyun/[T.
Kishion (Khirbet
Qishyon]) X3 182
Kishon (river Nahr el-Muqatta‘) X3
84, 92, 105, 114, 150
Kithira (island, Cerigo/Cythera)
C3 16
D3 178
Kittim see Cyprus
Kizilirmak (river) see Halys
Kizli Hisar (Tukhana/Tyana) F3
138
Kizzuwatna see Cilicia
Knossos E3 66, 138, 178
Kom el-Ah.mar (Hierakonopolis)
F5/6 178
Koppeh Dagh mountains N3-4 17
Kostolac (Viminacium) D2 158
Kouklia F4 178
Kue (Coa/Khume, region)
F3 100
G3 110, 124
K. uft (Coptos) F5 128
Kullanköy (Calneh/Calno) G3 110
Kültepe (Kanish) G3 66, 100, 178
Kummukhu (Commagene, region)
G3 100, 110, 128, 138, 159, 173
Kuntillet ‘Ajrud [H. orvat Teman] F5
178
Kura (Cyropolis/Uratube) N2 129,
139
Kura (river Cyrus) J2 129, 139
Kurnub (Mamphsis)
X6 146, 151
see also insert on 182
Kusura F3 178
Kyrenia F3 128
Labraunda E3 178
Lacedaemon (Sparta)
C3 16
D3 128, 138, 158, 172, 178
Lachish (Tell ed-Duweir)
E2 79
F4 178
W5 72, 85, 105, 114, 133, 183
Ladder of Tyre (Ras enNaqura/[Rosh Haniqral]) X2 150
213
Lagash (Telloh) J4 67, 179
Lahun F5 178
Laish see Dan (Danos)
Laishah (el-‘Issawiyeh) X5 114
Lakkum (Khirbet el-Mans.urah) Y3 84
Laodicea (in Anatolia, Eskishisa)
D2 169
E3 159, 172
Laodicea (in Syria, Lataqia) G3 138,
173
Lapithos F3 178
Larissa D3 158, 172
Larnaka (Citium) F4 128, 138, 173,
178
Larsa (Sankereh/Senkereh) J4 67, 111,
128, 179
Lasea (in Crete)
D3 158
D4 172
Lataqia (Laodicea in Syria) G3 138,
173
Lebanon (mountains and region)
F3-G3 16
G4 66, 100, 110
Y1-2 92
Lebanon, Mount Y1-2 14, 72, 84, 105
Lebanon, Valley of Y1-2 14, 84
Lebo-hamath (Lebweh) G4 100, 110,
124-5
Lebonah (Lubban) X4 85
Lebweh see Lebo-hamath
Lehi? (Beit ‘Atab?) X5 85
˙
Leja (Trachonitis,
region) Z2-3 20,
146
Lemnos (island) E3 172, 178
Leontes (river Nahr el-Litani) Y1-X2
˙
14, 146
Lepeis Magna B4 158
Lesbos (island)
C3 16
E3 128-9, 172, 178
Leuke Kome G6 100
Libba (Khirbet Libb) Y5 133
Libnah (Tell Bornat/[Tel Burna?])
˙
E2 79
W5 85, 92, 105, 114, 183
Libya (Lubim)
C4-D4 16
D4-E4 110, 128, 158, 178
E4-5 66
Libyan Desert D5-E6 16
Libyan Plateau D4 16
Limenes Kali (Fair Havens) D4 158,
172
Lindus E3 178
Lit.ani, Nahr el- (river Leontes) Y1X2 14, 146
Little Bitter Lake C3 78
Little Zab (river Zab el-Saghir) H3
67, 111, 125, 179
Livias (Betharamphtha/Julias/T. erRameh) Y5 146, 151
Lod (Lydda) W5 72, 114, 133, 146, 151
Lo-debar (T. el-H. ammeh/Umm elDabar) Y4 92, 105
Lorestan (Luristan) K3 17
Lower Sea see Persian Gulf
Lowland, The (Shephelah, The) X56 30, 33, 72, 85, 92, 105, 114
Lubban (Lebonah) X4 85
Lubim see Libya
Luca (Lucca) B2 158
Ludd (Ludu) see Lydia
Luristan (Lorestan) K3 17